This is one of the most succinct explications of why I like to be the adult that I am.
https://soundcloud.com/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn/outshot-dads-style
Category: Dealing with Things
I Jokingly Assumed
https://twitter.com/ftrain/status/632305017043619841
I can die now.
This Must be the Imposter Convention
It’s hard to look at my impostor syndrome as the worst thing in the world — it has spurned me on to do better, work harder, and aim higher. On an emotional and mental level, however, it has been debilitating and difficult to get past. I’ve gone entire days without writing a meaningful line of code due to my lack of confidence. Other times I take that feeling and crush it by overcoming development obstacles.
If a person like David can be as successful and well-known as he is and still feel the haunt of the imposter syndrome, then I’m in good company.
Live in the richest, deepest, most productive way you can
When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.
Oliver Sacks on learning he has terminal cancer from the New York Times.
Björk on Working With Men
After being the only girl in bands for 10 years, I learned—the hard way—that if I was going to get my ideas through, I was going to have to pretend that they—men—had the ideas. I became really good at this and I don’t even notice it myself. I don’t really have an ego. I’m not that bothered. I just want the whole thing to be good. And I’m not saying one bad thing about the guys who were with me in the bands, because they’re all amazing and creative, and they’re doing incredible things now. But I come from a generation where that was the only way to get things done. So I have to play stupid and just do everything with five times the amount of energy, and then it will come through.
From this Pitchfork interview with Björk (via Waxy.org)