It is our actions that define us and it is what we do today that matters more than what we did yesterday. Who will we be this day? Today is all that is really ours to command.
To know less than nothing about something… Jacob’s First Law
Skip the syndication, Alan Jacobs
The Pleasure of Reading, Alan Jacobs
Men value relationships more and suffer more from breakups than women.
Perfectionism - Annie Dillard
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, an enemy of the people. It stands in the way of the shitty first draft. It lies to you that if you run carefully enough, just hitting every step-stone right, you won’t have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway, and people not looking at their feet while jumping will do a whole better job than you, and have way more fun while at it.
Alan Jacobs: We all must know our place
It had never occured to me that Garcia’s short story, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, might have been about a Suicide.
I have written something about it on my blog.
Rereading stuff helps us more than we know. By cultivating a habit of going back to things you enjoyed, you make the experience more fun and enriching.
Go back, have fun again. Watch that movie again. See that series one more time. Listen to that song again. Repeat. Reread. Rewatch.
John Owen:
Satan tends to attack us according to our particular personalities, moving against a confident person much differently than an anxious one, but tempting both nonetheless. Thus, we must learn our dispositions, for in so doing we are more prepared to avoid the stealthy arrows directed at us.