Molly Simpson
@spagmol
thinker, feeler, third-wheeler
collecting dots here, connecting them there ￬
Molly Simpson
spagmol.substack.com
If you try hard, you can remember a time when our tools and platforms were designed by people, for people. Operating systems were bubbly and evanescent, like nature. Apps were customizable, in every shape and size. And interfaces drew on real-life metaphors to help you understand them, integrating them effortlessly into your life.
But as our... See more
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The Browser Company • Optimizing For Feelings
as far as you can manage it, you should make sure your psychological centre of gravity is in your real and immediate world – the world of your family and friends and neighborhood, your work and your creative projects, as opposed to the world of presidencies and governments, social forces and global emergencies.
This will make you happier. It will
... See moreMore and more, I find myself turning to reading and writing to grapple with the fact that I only get to live out one life. Chewing on the cud of my one earthly existence lets me experience life once on the way down—as I go about my day and live it all in real-time—and once again on the way back up, when I regurgitate it back onto the page.
It’s a
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spag mol on Substack
one of the greatest tricks the devil ever played on humanity is convincing us that there is any such thing as absolute certainty. the only time things are 100% clear are carefully constructed fictions.
anything true, beautiful, eternal requires a leap of faith and pure belief
anything true, beautiful, eternal requires a leap of faith and pure belief
Will Manidis • Tweet
It’s confusing to be alive and be A Thing moving through the world. You are always different things to different people.
Thank Goodness - song and lyrics by Ariana Grande - Spotify
open.spotify.comthat’s why i couldn’t be happier
no, i couldn’t be happier
though it is, i admit,
the tiniest bit
unlike i anticipated.
but i couldn’t be happier,
simply couldn’t be happier.
well, not simply.
cos getting your dreams,
it’s strange but it seems
a little, well, complicated.
there’s a kind of a sort of cost
there’s a couple of things get lost
there are bridges you cross
you don’t know you’d cross until you’ve crossed.
and if that joy, that thrill,
doesn’t thrill like you think it will,
still, with this perfect finale,
the cheers and the bally-hoo,
who wouldn’t be happier?
so, i couldn’t be happier
because happy is what happens
when all your dreams come true.
well, isn’t it?
happy is what happens
when your dreams come true.