I’m trying to focus more on seeking satisfaction over happiness.
Here are the best stuff I saw this week.
TikTok
When I worked in Corporate America and startups I always found it funny when people would freak out over small mistakes or let a negative work experience ruin their day.
Unless you’re on the brink of getting fired or you did something morally irrepressible, who gives a f***.
A healthy separation from your job and your identity is actually a good thing. Being able to separate the two will let you make more clear-headed decisions.
Pay attention to the people that can’t separate. They’re often lacking something more fundamental.
Essay: The Case Against Travel
The first paragraph pulls you in to this article: “I love to travel is the most uninformative statement you can get from someone.”
While I agree, “I love to travel,” tells you absolutely nothing about the person, it doesn’t make travel bad.
Travel depends on the traveler. Who they are, where they are in life, and why they’re traveling. A tourist uncounsiously eating, walking, and drinking or crossing off experiences probably isn’t the right way to do travel. It probably won’t make you a new person.
But, then again, not everything is about change.
Agnes (the author) writes a lot of these controversial articles. She probably relishes in the criticism. So, let her have it and use the article as a think piece, but realize that’s what it is.
Media
The more I live the more I realize the negative impacts weed has had on me.
They will make the unbelievable, the norm.
Quote
Title IX, the gender equity and education bill was passed 50 years ago, in 1972. At that time, men obatianed bachelor’s degrees 13% higher rate than women. That gap has only grown since, to 18 points, but now it’s women ahead. There’s a bigger gender gap today, then there was 50 years ago, when Title IX was passed.
Richard Reeves, Economist and Writer from Univ. of Oxford
Experience:
I want this section to be a human moment from my week.
I sat down in a coffee shop near my house last Sunday.
My plan was to write a much overdue review of Crime and Punishment. As I toiled, a pretty lady sat down next to me. I didn’t pay her any attention, at first. Why would she want my attention in the first place plus, I had to finish a book review that may get read by all of 5 people.
But I noticed her open body language. She wasn’t going on her phone or whipping out a computer. Her body was open towards me. Did she want to talk to me? Was I overthinking it?
The main thing I noticed was the tiny pocket book she wrote in. You don’t see many people put pen to paper in public, without distraction.
After a few minutes I asked if this was her Sunday morning ritual? That started a 90-minute chat about from everything to capitalism to quiet time and her trip to the Dominican Republic. Then, I asked if she wanted to join me on a walk. On the walk, we stopped in a bar to play connect four and sat on the Gowanus Canal.
The impromptu date lasted about two and a half hours. It was natural and fun. It reminded me how spontaneous and fun life can be when you’re vulnerable and act rather than think.
We get so caught up with our own lives and goals, we don’t realize who we’re sharing spaces with.
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P.S: Still working on part 2 of Cultural Moneyballism. Should be done soon.