"wow-I-feel-you" quotes

The skillful practice of ignorance cannot be reduced to the avoidance of bullshit. It would be self-defeating to deprive oneself of bullshit completely, for bullshit is the air we breathe, and we could not learn or accomplish anything without it.

Over the years, as I’ve aged and made smarter friends, I’ve gradually grown dumber relative to my peers. I’ve compensated by dialing up my agency, which I think of as “manifest determination to make things happen.”

“The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.”

I don’t want to fit into some weird cultural idea of what a dad is supposed to be. I just want to be me. But “me” is changing. This is a huge life shift and, like any life event, it’s changing me

In my ideal world, the act of saying sorry at appropriate times would be a hallmark of power rather than a marker of weakness. I think many women would feel more comfortable among the powerful if it were.

So here’s a little shout to the sorry-sayers, the carers. I think we’ve gotten a bad rep. I hope we can unapologetically say our sorry’s, loud and... See more

I believe that anyone who has to work on a holiday should be paid double. I believe corn on the cob should be put on the grill in the husk. And I believe that fireworks are so fun to shoot off and also should be totally banned.

Languages are living things. They age and change and grow and shrink. Sometimes we use a word incorrectly on a personal level for years (see me and immergance vs. emergance , gah) and sometimes a whole bunch of people begin “misusing” a word with such frequency that the word acquires that new, misused meaning. See: literally , which was “mis”-used ... See more