I build products; writing keeps me sane.
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I look forward to the day a Black woman becomes governor, and her race and gender are no longer what makes the event extraordinary.
The internet: “Bear or man?”
Proverbs 17:12: “Bear.”
“It is safer to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than to confront a fool caught in foolishness.”
— Proverbs 17:12
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writing is a little abusive.
I have a love-hate relationship with it.
I love it because nothing else lets you make something this exact.
And I hate it because nothing else punishes imprecision this brutally.
I’m so happy Arsenal didn’t win the Champions League. If a horse rode through my chest right now, it wouldn’t stumble lmao.
My love is not easily withdrawn, but it is not stupid. It has eyes. It has memory. It has boundaries. It knows when something sacred has been violated.
Not everyone has to perform grand love. But when someone's need appears in front of you, your response reveals the shape of your care.
Intellectual people are not rare. There are a great many of them.
An intellectual person is a person who has the genius to grasp the fact that it is a curious experience to be alive; so curious in fact that it is madness not to sacrifice everything to get the full taste of it.
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
The patrician took a sip of his beer. “I have told this to few people, gentlemen, and i suspect i never will again, but one day when i was a young boy on holiday in Uberwald, I was walking along the bank of a stream when i saw a mother Otter with her cubs.
“I did it for love” is the sentence that allows a person to exchange something essential for something immediate.
States use it. Families use it. Individuals use it. It is the most efficient solvent of responsibility ever devised.