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Oct 27 7 tweets 1 min read
life hack work in a restaurant bw the ages of 18 and 24

not a joke
"i didn't get the typical college experience"

go work in a restaurant
"i was all alone as a child"

go work in a restaurant
"i don't know how to talk to people"

go work in a restaurant
"housework is gross"

go work in a restaurant
"i'm new to a city and can't find any friends"

go work in a restaurant
"the world is all scripted and regimented. there is no spontaneity left to be had, nor joy, nor surprise"

go work in a restaurant

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Oct 26
women management thought leaders: don’t become a mommy manager!

women in management:
been thinking about this lately and i’ve got a rough draft hypothesis for why this happens
smthg smthg high visibility higher expectations and increased work load for the whole team bc of it, no confident pushback from the manager and she suffers and the team suffers

idk may be unfair
Read 5 tweets
Sep 11
at some point in our life, after our journey from which we've returned a champion, after we've collected our brass trophies

after we buy the house in the country and win the jealousy of everyone we know

we will have to face that even here, there will be dishes
alas, even in our superior state, the dishes will still need washing, the clothes kept off the floor, and the broom to make an appearance once in a while

but no one taught us these skills, so how do we do it?

well, it seems we want a pie. so let's create a universe.
ᴀɴʏ ꜱᴜꜰꜰɪᴄɪᴇɴᴛʟʏ ᴀᴅᴠᴀɴᴄᴇᴅ ᴛʜᴇᴏʀʏ ᴏꜰ ʜᴏᴜꜱᴇᴡᴏʀᴋ ɪꜱ ɪɴᴅɪꜱᴛɪɴɢᴜɪꜱʜᴀʙʟᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ʀᴇʟɪɢɪᴏɴ
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Sep 10
i once imagined inspiration as a golden pearl gifted to me at birth, from which i could shave small slivers to create stories and ideas and drawings and poems

i feared taking from this inspiration too much. it would be gone soon and then who would i be, without my pearl?
it’s true that taking from the pearl depletes it. if you look closely, you can see how some artists cling to their original vision until all they know how to do is rub the final shard though it has long since stopped giving.
but if you let it, the pearl can grow with you as you move through life. it can take on new shapes and be informed by honest witness.

experience accumulates in the shell; reflection polishes it
Read 6 tweets
Sep 1
if i taught a writing class, i would have the whole group write the same story. some basic story arc, nothing wild. mythically simple.
to discourage attempts at creativity, i would tell them the punch line up front:

the lesson isn't find how different we can be, but how difficult it is for us to be the same (even when we're trying)
anyway i'm trying to write basic stories and can't seem to keep my beliefs out of them, the darn things
Read 4 tweets
Sep 1
considering that maybe “luck” was an old word for intelligence. to describe the kind of person who knows how to swim with the currents of serendipity
i learned a few years ago that the greek navy has a place on their forms for judging whether sailors are fit specifically for luck, and that an unlucky sailor would never go to sea
i’ve been wondering what that could possibly mean ever since, and the best i figure is that they estimated these sailors were dumb but couldn’t quite pinpoint the place it which they made their mistake

but it kept happening

hence “luck”
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Aug 4
what is citizenship?

it's a pity that a word that could be otherwise so rich in social meaning instead has the texture of wood-stained fiberglass and miniature plastic flags
when i imbue the word with the power to teach me something, i feel an interesting shift that creates the idea of a middle distance

the language we use to create the ideas of local and global maxima makes it seem like "middle" is a metaphor for lacking conviction, but, hmm
visa has talked quite a bit about the idea of a "good public" and i'm inclined to feel like these ideas are connected

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