Marty Bell
@martybell
Marty Bell
if your significant other asks you to do an irritating-for-them task that is not especially difficult, you should be thankful. They have given you an unambiguous way to earn points in the relationship, which is how you get a nice life going. Usually, achieving personal flourishing is more complex than taking out the garbage.
Sasha Chapin • 50 Things I Know
“The secret of life is to waste time in ways that you like.“
Your job, really, is to find people who love you for reasons you hardly understand, and to love them back, and to try as hard as you can to make it all easier for each other."
the good internet doesn’t disengage us from the real world. it makes us live better in the real world.
When it feels like nothing is happening, that’s when everything is about to happen. Don’t get so used to chaos that peace feels like something’s wrong
Brianna W
Many of us yearn for a way to be fully online without all of the mindlessness, passivity and addiction that often entraps us. Some of us oscillate between fully online and fully offline in a sort of mad dance to establish what feels right. Others have lost hope that it’s possible to engage in a way that feels true and alive, and have resigned to us... See more
Dan Hunt • Internet as Practice
Keep your identity small. “I’m not the kind of person who does things like that” is not an explanation, it’s a trap. It prevents nerds from working out and men from dancing.
