Third Spaces
“I have a theory that chasing things that scale makes you need therapy, and the therapy is pursuing things that can’t scale. I once wrote that every entrepreneur’s dream is to succeed at building an impossibly hard business and then finally open a local coffee shop to be happy.”
Notes on scale + quality
I don’t love the intimations of class distinctions...if there’s one thing that we don’t talk about enough, it’s that class is mighty powerful in terms of determining the course of your life.
A Community or a Club?
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
This is the beauty of alternative community space and the result of disability and care activism at work; we all place somewhere on a continuum of ability, we all could use genuine, proactive, enthusiastic offers of support every day. It is how we let our friends and collaborators and strangers know that we’re thinking of them. It’s how we feel som... See more
Thinking of You
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