Sophie Oddo
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Sophie Oddo
Imposter syndrome is loosely defined as doubting your abilities and feeling like a fraud. It disproportionately affects high-achieving people, who find it difficult to accept their accomplishments.
Michelle Rockwood • Joyful Selling: A Better Way to Yes for Heart-Centered Coaches
I love the thrill, the chugging brain power required, to orchestrate a cascade of changes just to get rid of a single tile, altering the entire tablescape in the process. This also means that even when it’s not your turn, you have reason to pay attention.
My Family Loves Rummikub and Miraculously So Do I
Rummikub
Since early November, the number of daily active users to Chess.com, a website and app where visitors can get chess news, learn the game and play against one another and computer opponents, has jumped from 5.4 million to more than 11 million, rising sharply after the beginning of the year.
nytimes.com • The Stealth Campaign That’s Getting Your Kids Hooked on Chess - The New York Times
NYT chess
Our appetite for life is so big that living just one life doesn’t always feel like enough. We want to know what other people’s lives are like, and we want other people to live some of our lives, too.
Blackbird Spyplane • This life gives you nothing
“I think blind boxes reintroduce useful friction to the consumer experience. When something comes too easily, we tend to value it less,” says Kwok. “Intentional friction combined with surprise make the experience and what’s inside more valuable and memorable.”
Edmond Lau • Why are blind boxes everywhere? | Jing Daily
BLind boxes
Opinion | Why We Mistake the Wholesomeness of Gen Z for Conservatism
nytimes.com
I’m an elder millenial (‘84) and the biggest difference is fatigue. I’m so, so tired. 9/11 happened my senior year of high school. Hurricane Katrina and the destructive, corrupt 104th Congress in college. The Great Recession in my early working years. My first child days before Trump’s first term. My second child the year before Covid. One climate disaster after another. Now Trump 2 and the fracturing of the future. Gen Z appears to have internalized and accepted this chaos as the natural order of things, which lends itself to a zen-like inward turn and approach to contentment rather than extremes and hysteria. Like the old adage of the Buddhist monk who says “We’ll see.” That’s my feeling, anyway. I don’t have any data to back that up. But it makes me a little hopeful. Also I would like to say Ms. Grose, you are a breath of fresh air which I always look forward to.
don’t know how else to explain it except to say that when I make time to read, my capacity to deal with my own life — and my own bullshit — expands . My natural tendency to be tightly wound loosens its grip.
Reading as a default state
writing about the luxury of being offline requires being extremely online. The status symbol of disconnection can only be signaled through connection. But perhaps that’s the point: the real flex is navigating the network with enough grace that no one can tell you’re performing at all.
Eugene Healey • Post-Luxury Status Symbol #1: Connected Privacy
Eugene, connected privacy