we don't have enough opportunities to dress up anymore

I’ve been learning to cut people off mid sentence I used to think that interrupting others was an axiomatically immoral thing to do, but there are some people in my life who, left unchecked, will dominate every conversation Practice diplomatically making space for yourself

My dad is a good man and an excellent father. He was also an exacting one. I asked him if he wished he’d done anything different as a parent. His answer surprised me. He said “I wish I was a more merciful father; I wish for everyone correction I gave you all I gave 9 compliments”

if twitter falls apart i will accidentally leave my journal in a public place

do you ever feel like you've spent your whole life just reconstructing common wisdom from scratch

true self awareness is acknowledging how revealed preferences are far superior in understanding yourself than stated preferences eg saying you want X but always doing Y = you actually deep down are most fulfilled by Y

something's in the air. everyone is having honest, clearing, lay-it-on-the-table conversations. i've had 3 today and so has everybody else apparently

maybe we’d be better off if we all had blogs instead of dating profiles

Habituating the small things enables clear-headed thought Whenever I move to a new place I find that the thousands of little choices I make every day take a lot of mental energy I do my best work when most of my life is second nature

To get great at documenting your life you just have to develop an impulse to write down the thoughts you already have There are so many times I see a tweet that I have thought before; I just fail to put those thought on paper

If I ever don't know what I need to do, the answer is usually to take care of my soul until I know what to do again

Tag yourselves,,, new Kinsey scale just dropped

I aim to be able to look my weaknesses in the face without succumbing to them At the same time, I vie for a home free of temptation Voluntary discomfort helps us grow; your home, however, should be a safe haven from that darkness

My mom was visiting me in SF and has been pointing out all the flowers; now it feels like my eyes are open to all the beautiful flora that I've never noticed before It's cool the way that someone else's perception can change your experience of familiar places

It is Sunday. Despite the chaos, we must live slowly.

We should bring back clapping when airplanes land