Leo Guinan
@leoguinan
Leo Guinan
H]uman beings need all the relatives they can get–as possible donors or receivers not necessarily of love, but of common decency.
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When we were children in Indianapolis, Indiana, it appeared that we would always have an extended family of genuine relatives there. Our parents and grandparents, after all, had grown up there with shoals of siblingsfrom KURT VONNEGUT ON THE NEED FOR BUILDING EXTENDED FAMILIES by Austin Kleon
Extended Family is important. Why not choose the extended family we bring in?
- Mentors and friends have always warned me that employers will never care about you.
But what if that’s a story we decided was true, one that doesn’t have to be?from Why do you work? by Alicia Bonner
- They value me as a resource, someone who GSD and makes things happen.
They value that I know how to do stuff, so they don’t have to.
But they don’t actually value who I am, what I stand for, or my potential to change the world.from Why do you work? by Alicia Bonner
The Problem With Measuring The Outcomes of Systems and Engineering Generosity
They valued the wrong things.
- every failure is my fault and it’s up to me to fix those failures
from The Biggest Obstacle To Scaling Creativity by Leo Guinan
Useful falsehoods
- It was my favorite way to escape until I stopped wanting to escape and I wanted to build a world around myself that I don’t need to escape from.
from Tweet by Corderosa Amada Kugla
Build a world you don’t need to escape from
- But even if I had a word like it, the nerd never disturbed
It's absurd but I'm looking 'round and ain't nobody verse me
I don't think a mothafucka's ever tried to hurt me
Everyone I see has been supportive on this journey
Like where my haters at? I'm thirsty (Uh)
I just really wanna talk my shit, be like, "Y'all ain't shit"
But y'all ain't shit, like, y'... See morefrom LilDicky – The Antagonist
Where are the haters at?
Curse of Knowledge : The inability to communicate your ideas because you wrongly assume others have the necessary background to understand what you’re talking about.
from 100 Little Ideas by Morgan Housel
Learn to simplify if you want to connect.
- Keeping a good thing going is hard, and if you have the skills to do it, it kinda makes sense to focus your use of those skills in domains that are more rewarding. This creates “missing markets” that are only served by thankless volunteers who are suckers for pain.
from writing a facebook status in 2024
This feels extremely profound. We end up creating broken systems sustained by masochists.
- Despite my tendency to procrastinate, I’ve gotten (mostly) good at not being late for things because I spend a lot of my energy trying to not let other people down.
from TRUSTWORTHY TRUST
How much energy is lost for the sake of trying to maintain some level of “adulting”?