January 2012
40 posts
December 2011
36 posts
eject: Nurse Reveals Top 5 Regrets of the Dying →
I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life other expected of me.
I wish I didn’t work so hard.
I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
I wish I’d stayed in touch with my friends.
I wish that I had let myself be happier.
“Be always at war with your Vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New...”
– Benjamin Franklin
6 Important Startup Trends that Defined 2011 →
wait what, Take Care of You (Drake vs Gil Scott...
Shouldn’t we have a category for endangered words? Perhaps we need a system of adopting words to keep them safe and well, the way people adopt favourite stretches of highway. We would sign up, promise to use our chosen words as often as possible and of course object when they are misused or threatened with abandonment.
I wouldn’t choose anything unspellable or obscurely classy, like...
Lisa Mitchell, Neopolitan Dreams
“Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.” - Bobby, age 7
What Is Love? Some Really Smart Kids May Have the Answer
In the shooting range, the sound of the Remington had seemed somehow constrained, clipped, confined, and it got a little under your skin like the sound of someone biting on the blade of a knife. But here on the trout pond, the shotgun was resonant. It boomed like a ship’s cannon and the sound lingered for a full beat. It seemed to give shape to the open air, or rather to reveal the hidden...
“…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff…...”
– John Green
30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself →
“I think that when you get dressed in the morning, sometimes you’re really making...”
– Demetri Martin
[via simko]
And the act of gaslighting does not simply affect women who are not quite sure of themselves. Even vocal, confident, assertive women are vulnerable to gaslighting.
Why?
Because women bare the brunt of our neurosis. It is much easier for us to place our emotional burdens on the shoulders of our wives, our female friends, our girlfriends, our female employees, our female colleagues, than for us...
