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Find something important only you can build, he said, which would not exist without you. It’s inspiring enough advice on its face, which is how it’s generally taken, and how I always took it myself. But the advice requires an important, rarely considered step: introspection.

Do you even know what you’re good at? Do you even know what you believe... See more

When I say “normie,” I don’t mean anti-creator. I mean anti-performance. A normie can absolutely be on ShopMy. The difference isn’t whether there’s a link — it’s whether the link is the point. Normies lead with taste and say, “Hey, you might like this.” They don’t start with monetization and reverse-engineer a personality around it.

Like me, she was very good in a crisis and very bad on a typical weekday; I believe it was she who introduced me to Walker Percy, even taking me to Covington to see where he lived, and he was well-aware of this reality: “It is easier to survive a category five hurricane than it is to get through an ordinary Wednesday afternoon.” My mother was... See more