One day you’ll find yourself approaching a revolving door. Note that starting a revolving door often requires some leverage, so if it’s not already moving, it’s one of the few entrances at which it’s polite to enter before a woman.
-PWB
A little guide to glimmers:
- glimmers are the opposite of triggers
- they are tiny moments of awe
- they spark joy & evoke inner calm
- they have a positive effect on our mental health
- they are micro-moments causing tiny mood shifts
- they send cues of safety to our nervous system
- they bring feelings of ease & contentment
- our body responds with positive energy
- they allow us to feel hope when lost
- our nervous system is strengthened by them
- they can help increase our well-being
- once we start embracing them it can become a beautiful way to see the world around you
“Can you explain this gap in your resume?”
“Yes. Life is about more than constant, meaningless toil for 40-50 years resulting in a desolate twilight of failed ambitions. The social contract is broken, and the system is a lie. You and I are both trapped in the same Sisyphean hell where no amount of working harder or longer will ever truly grant the rewards we were promised. The real question is, why are there no gaps in your resume?”
I find myself thinking back to the early days of Covid. There were weeks when it was clear that lockdowns were coming, that the world was tilting into crisis, and yet normalcy reigned, and you sounded like a loon telling your family to stock up on toilet paper. There was the difficulty of living in exponential time, the impossible task of speeding policy and social change to match the rate of viral replication. I suspect that some of the political and social damage we still carry from the pandemic reflects that impossible acceleration. There is a natural pace to human deliberation. A lot breaks when we are denied the luxury of time.
But that is the kind of moment I believe we are in now. We do not have the luxury of moving this slowly in response, at least not if the technology is going to move this fast.
—Ezra Klein, This Changes Everything
“exponential time”