Mickey Patel
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Mickey Patel
Doesn’t that feel more powerful? Try it. Maybe instead of “fault” you prefer the word “responsibility,” but the idea is the same. Think of every bad thing that happened to you, and imagine that you happened to it. 72 sive.rs/my-fault
Hell_Yeah_or_No • Sivers
Your fault over forgiveness 2
When friendship is settled, you must trust; before friendship is formed, you must pass judgment.
en.wikisource.org • Moral Letters to Lucilius/Letter 3 - Wikisource, the Free Online Library
So look around at those existing ideas in the world. You can imitate them and still be offering something valuable and unique.
Hell_Yeah_or_No • Sivers
You can still be unique.
Let's put them all together. Useful writing tells people something true and important that they didn't already know, and tells them as unequivocally as possible.
paulgraham.com • How to Write Usefully
Human expression was perfected into pithy thought-capsules (Twitter, LinkedIn), glamour shots (Instagram), and performative soundbites (TikTok), all perfect carriers for human emotions and — most importantly — ADVERTISING, which we were also now expected to do, newly equipped with our “personal brands.”
The dominance of these formats and mindset... See more
The dominance of these formats and mindset... See more
Yancey Strickler • Formulary for New Media
Great questions don't appear
suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes
them congeal is experience. So the way to find great questions is
not to search for them — not to wander about thinking, what great
discovery shall I make? You can't answer that; if you could, you'd
have made it.
suddenly. They gradually congeal in your head. And what makes
them congeal is experience. So the way to find great questions is
not to search for them — not to wander about thinking, what great
discovery shall I make? You can't answer that; if you could, you'd
have made it.
paulgraham.com • What You'll Wish You'd Known
‘What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend.’ That is progress indeed. Such a person will never be alone, and you may be sure he is a friend of all.
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium (Classics S.)
Progress is when you stop taking on everything others say as truth and start being friends with your own truth.
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