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[smashes champagne on the bow of the ship] Hear ye, Hear ye, my substack is officially Open https://t.co/sOVQOI3eoB
"Now that they’re out of my head, I can walk around them, inspect them, prod at them, and ask them what the hell they want from me." https://t.co/aYQKZXvGtk
@visakanv It would be cool if everyone wrote an essay about the essays they didn't write https://t.co/NMX4K7ecJT
"You are important to me. Your needs are important to me. You don’t exist as some mere commodity-resource to be thrown into a meat grinder so that utility comes out the other end. You matter as a human being. What would you enjoy?" https://t.co/50XgFPIkVf
"Sometimes earnestness means being okay with things being less-than-perfect, and saying that’s alright, let’s go with that for now, and let’s do better next time. [...] It’s a question to live out, not something to be answered with any finality." https://t.co/nS8ny9KTIV
"I often feel like I’m multiple people, spirits, entities, all irreverently hot-desking the same piteous meatbag." https://t.co/dZlr4AHkkz
"When a child asks “Is Santa real?”, the best thing you could say in response is not a dismissive “Yes" or “No”, but an inviting “What do you think?” – in a way that suggests you’re about to let them in on an important secret. Because you are." https://t.co/d3M7CBAkEK
"Talk is cheap, and the road is long, and you’ll see for yourself along the way who sticks around and who calls it quits." https://t.co/jdIJa3lPLL
@visakanv "When I was a kid, one of my most agonizing frustrations was about how rare it was that anybody would take me seriously"Are you familiar with the Taking Children Seriously philosophy? https://t.co/PjiEkGWdq5