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“I am glad I was brought up in Ireland, because I don’t think I would be who I am today without the idea of being on an island,” he told me. “The window is small, so everything outside looks big. The big world looks bigger.”

I am looking now for software that insists I make choices rather than whispers that none are needed. I don’t want my digital life to be one shame closet after another. A new metaphor has taken hold for me: I want it to be a garden I tend, snipping back the weeds and nourishing the plants.

Boyhood ends the day you stop chasing approval and start demanding respect. The icon is born the moment you would rather be hated for your standards than loved for your compliance.

Every time you risk embarrassment, every time you reject a fake friend, every time you enforce your boundaries, you kill a little more of the boy and birth more of the... See more

Ship work that can be judged by the only jury that matters (reality.)

Speak directly enough that people stop guessing.

Decide faster than your fear.

The price we pay for dreaming is the possibility of drowning; the price we pay for not dreaming is the surety of coasting through life in a stupor of autopilot, landlocked in the givens of our time, place, and culture. The dreamer, then, is the only one fully awake to life — that bright technology of the possible the universe invented to prevail

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