Daniela Detera
@danidee
Daniela Detera
Like armor or a mask, the good girl archetype is a protective mechanism, a way to be that helps us feel safe and loved in the patriarchy but that is ultimately disempowering.
Majo Molfino • Break the Good Girl Myth: How to Dismantle Outdated Rules, Unleash Your Power, and Design a More Purposeful Life
The world, I realized, is built on passive connection, on the low-effort maintenance of relationships through shared content, mutual voyeurism, and the occasional emoji reaction. Without that, you become a ghost, haunting the edges of people’s lives but never quite materializing.
This customization made possible by our “always-online society” can also have negative effects: people have become more prone to becoming anxious when either physical or virtually disconnected from others and it puts us all in a state of mutual surveillance. So, on the one hand, there is the feeling of always wanting to be connected to somebody,... See more
404 - e-flux
Rory Sutherland, vice chairman of the Ogilvy advertising agency, famously told a story about an office building where people complained that an elevator took too long to arrive. Instead of spending $1 million to make the elevators 5 percent faster, they solved the problem by spending around $100 to add mirrors so people could look at themselves... See more
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
how the centre of national film in france is able to fund films in both box office hits and independent cinema — thinking about creativity and how it is encouraged in this system that doesn’t just fully favor high returns
We learned to be "good" - to follow the rules about putting others first, never being selfish, always being agreeable. But in doing so, we lost touch with our own trickster energy: the cunning, vivifying power that could help us steal back what's been taken from us.
Why brilliant women can solve everyone's problems – except our own
before facebook, people kept their personal lives mostly private, it just wasn’t the norm to broadcast everything. you didn’t even think to do it.
but now, public sharing of your private life is almost default, ppl chase quick validation which often results in so much stress.
my friends who... See more
signüllx.comAnd the big worry now is that the basic norm or value of respecting humanity and human life is just being shredded. And everyone, whether they’re Sudanese or Palestinian or Syrian, will suffer from that.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-to-prevent-more-starvation-deaths-in-gaza
When I stopped thinking of consistency as discipline and started seeing it as devotion, I finally felt like I could breathe! It became about trust, not tracking. About showing up because I love where I’m going, not because I hate where I am.