Laurence Chen
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
- there’s this struggle in my head. Is the world ending, or is it a nice day and I’m getting coffee? Obviously, it’s not a binary thing, but living this way is sometimes brain-scrambling. It’s not like the constant doom and gloom of Twitter was making me a better climate activist. Instead I’d be paralyzed. Twitter incentivizes you to live in this con... See more
from How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis by The Atlantic
Yes. Regrettably, it’s also how it’s used; how one filters signal from the taxing noise. Twitter has been positive for a few, much more negative for many more. But a few figured out the compounding formula.
Drive your dopamine dream; don’t be driven. Steer now. –Laurence Chen
Do, or do not. There is no failure, only feedback. –Yoda Robert Allen
Ready Fire Aim and
“The hurt from getting beaten only lasts a little while, but the hurt from giving up without a fight never goes away.” – John Taylor Gatto
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. – Seneca
The tweet that can be retweeted is not the eternal kernel. Lather, rinse, retweet. This too is panicky. [Twitter tagline, Laurence Chen]
