June 9, 2024

Jun 10, 2024

I have been pretty bad about these but maybe I don’t need to be good. This is meant to be a sort of choose-your-own-adventure, guiding you adrift into Sunday rabbit holes, something I always enjoy before my more structured weekdays. Follow your interests into the links and show you support by liking or sharing anything you’re drawn to. Gratitude for the creators is not only a means of showing your support; Karma is selfish.

Short Stuff

bookbear express

looking for rejection

Cecily Brown, Rainy Day Women, 2007 dear bear, i recently graduated college and am faced with soul-crushing anxiety about jobs and career that i've been trying to keep at bay for the past few years. i'm infinitely lucky that i've found what i love to do (and am quite good at, i think?) but that just leaves me with anxiety about how to do the best i can i…

4 months ago · 121 likes · 15 comments · Ava

Knowingless

how to be respected as a teen girl

i think more women tend to have insecurity about their gender than men as a girl, like a young girl, maybe you get the impression that boys are cool in a way girls aren't. people praise and laugh at b…

4 months ago · 301 likes · 195 comments · Aella

Ask Polly

How to Be a True Romantic

The Moonstone Effect (1959) by Dorothea Tanning Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the balance between daring to believe that you deserve joy (a radical belief, when you’ve settled for less for so long) and focusing on joy so much that it becomes just another form of overachieving that distracts you from the mundane satisfactions of daily life. This m…

4 months ago · 261 likes · 21 comments · Heather Havrilesky

starting from nix

obsessive

The most enjoyable part of working in venture capital is constantly meeting smart and obsessive people. This isn’t limited to venture as an industry, but because startups are so arduous and, by definition, hack on the edge of what’s possible — there tends to be a high concentration or density of obsessive pe…

4 months ago · 87 likes · 8 comments · Nix 🕊

Long Stuff

Personality Types: Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson

It’s almost scary to witness my friends jump out of the page as I read these personality profiles. Their good traits, the things I love them for, and their bad. I think reading this has already given me more empathy. I understand the things people in my life need, even if I don’t need them myself.

He is one of 19 people to have won all four of the major American entertainment awards: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT). That was enough to convince me to pick up this biography. This is one of those escapist biographies where you’ll find yourself engrossed in a story only to pick your head up every so often and realize it’s not fiction.

I don’t even think I can preface this except to say just read it. Love, family, romance, relationships, friendships. There’s something deeply moving and universal in every page.

My bedtime read. You will feel at home and relaxed, and you will ponderously drift into a sleep full of soulful meditations on life. It’s beautiful.