Molly Simpson
@spagmol
thinker, feeler, third-wheeler
collecting dots here, connecting them there ￬
Molly Simpson
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A lesson I need to learn: It's ok to disappoint other people if you avoid disappointing yourself.
Art, AI, and the Courage to Create
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There are two kinds of writing; alive writing and dead writing. Alive writing invokes sensuousness, expansion, and insight. It transforms and enlarges its reader. It is a kind of disclosure; simultaneously immanent and transcendent. Dead writing is passive, sentimental and afraid of telling the truth. It discloses nothing except its own performance. The sentimentality is a front rather than a risk taken. Alive writing is a process wherein you forget it's even writing. Dead writing is a product that is too self conscious for its own good. It is an outcome of not being honest with yourself. It respects neither writer nor reader, instead it presents us with a mirage, having never truly made contact with the real.
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So, dance carefree, I hope it's easier knowing me
Now, your soul is yours, but I'll help it move if I can
(Rome, Dermot Kennedy)
The same is true about most businesses you admire. They might seem in order from the far but within, there's always a degree of chaos present. And that's ok. That's needed. It's part of the work. We all start out blind, hit a bunch of walls until we learn how to see. We learn to see which walls to avoid, which ones to go around and which ones to... See more
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The walls are there to keep other people out.
Because maybe there really are only a couple of people in this world I can go to unguarded and safe with all the pieces. But I’ve been realising what my love language is for it all. How much I am looking for honesty and the ground. Sometimes I think we’ve made things so complicated for ourselves because of not being able to say the simplest
... See moreThe thing I’ve learned over time is that friendships are not fungible—no two people are the same, obviously, but also you can’t replicate the experience of someone knowing you through a particular era of your life. You can never go back to that period of your life; you can never replace the people who witnessed you and supported you. To me,
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