"wow-I-feel-you" quotes
I was just there at The Firm as a stopover, to get the skills, I would have said at the time; this was not really me, I would have said, but it was a thin defense. How quickly I was becoming an icky person in these small, important moments. This is to say nothing of the actual impact of the work I was doing, which, I believe, was marginally useful... See more
I Felt Important
The perils on working for the wrong reasons
“The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.”
Superhuman
Somewhere in my mainlining of these philosophies, my wires got crossed. I conflated being busy with being responsible; productive with being profitable. A sense of ambient hustle urged me forward toward an imaginary (or rather, quantified) finish line. I filled every spare moment with a podcast, newsfeed, or task, reflexively stuffing my day until... See more
Money with Katie
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
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 like people who apologize
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.
birguslatro • Ignorance, a skilled practice
More than anything else it was this feeling that captivated me—the feeling that, literally, made me captive.
I Felt Important
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