Alex Jungius
@jungle
Alex Jungius
- I used to be a parrot, echoing other people's ideas, opinions, and beliefs, because I wasn’t sure of my own. I thought that by ‘borrowing’ and mimicking, I’d be more likeable, it’d be easier to seem cool, clever, or to belong. Looking back now, it gives me the ick—the amount of shit I nodded along to, gross. I think I was scared of looking stupid, ... See more
from Forty Years, Forty Lessons
- In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.
from idle gaze 067: slowpunk by Alexi Gunner
“I used to tell this story, about my theory of fucks. The theory goes like so: you are born with so many fucks to give. However many you’ve got is all there is; they are like eggs, that way. Some of us are born with quite a lot, some with less, but none of us knows how many we have. […]
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I still tell this story but I’ve changed it somewhat. Like most
Could it be that sharing your problem turns stress into high performance.
- That Nike post is the perfect articulation of the fact that as soon as all the corporations learned how to be “data driven” all the leverage had already shifted back to those able to make decisions based on taste, insight, and intuition.
A principle isn’t a principle until it costs you something.
- Bill Bernbach
- and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?
- charles bukowskifrom Home / X - https://x.com/home by x.com
