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Hmm I’ll (slowly) do this! https://twitter.com/crankyfed/status/1388230829999075329
Yes, you do need to learn how to spell and pronounce people’s names.
You got better at your instrument/sport/craft in spite of your abusive coach/professor/teacher/boss/instructor, not because of them.
“Radical candor” is never an excuse for being an asshole.
It’s probably not “the media” that’s going to screenshot and leak your shit, it’s the other 1500 people in your Discord.
If you’re on a call or getting drinks or coffee with someone and you leave that meeting with some great advice but not knowing a single thing about that nice person who helped you, you’ve failed at that meeting.
Just to alienate half of you, dogs > cats!
Gatekeeping is the process of excluding people with diverse skill sets that you desperately need.
There need to be safe and non-triggering places to openly discuss, debate and debunk horrible ideas with actual research.
Language evolves and it’s okay to use abbreviations your peer group is using (looking at you, crypto!) or to take on vocal affectations people your age are cool with or appreciate (yes, even vocal fry).
Corrections on inaccurate articles should be destigmatized and normalized, not used as a cudgel to attack the media.
Sometimes when you think you want to use a whisk, you should just use a fork.
Love your Insta but you should have actual clips on your writing website.
VCs should stop funding the, uh, clubhouses and voatses of the world
There’s no magical fairy that will reward you for doing the right thing over and over again, or replace the things you gave up, but you should just do it anyway.
Nobody owes you a response on Twitter!
Telling people to stay positive when things have a decent chance of ending badly is just so incredibly harmful.
Why are you getting all weird and competitive with someone who should be your ally? Stop that.
If you’re thinking of going to grad school for career reasons, strongly consider not going unless you get in for free.
If you can’t get excited about other people’s projects or discoveries and lend a hand or at least offer some support, what are you even doing here?
Holding grudges, while sometimes necessary, is exhausting, and probably hurts you more than the other person.
If you’re constantly tweeting at people about how they forgot these two important things in their roundup and an article they summarized shouldn’t have been selected, you should probably just write your own thing and give other people a chance to shit on it.
The only “influencers” worth their salt 1) don’t call themselves that and 2) don’t aspire to be that.
My best reporting tip is to be deeply embedded in a community and write about what *they* find disturbing, backed up with data and presented in a way other people can understand. Especially if it’s an industry-wide issue people who don’t know/like each other agree with.
I have no idea why companies keep building garbage proprietary software when there’s so many open source gems that could easily be made more usable while also throwing some desperately needed money back into the community.
Build your identity around multiple things because you’ll inevitably have to quit or maybe get pushed out of one of them. Things change.
I hung out with this dude who ran an indie label back when I was in high school and told him about the bullies who liked the same obscure music I did and he pointed out that shitty people can like cool things. The converse is also true. It’s a good reminder.
Also, all of your faves are likely problematic and if you can’t stop worshipping them, at least try to see them as flawed.
Just because you’ve been doing something for a long time doesn’t mean you’re right! So maybe listen to the person disagreeing with you who just researched your area of expertise that you now ignore… without being an asshat or giving them “homework.”
It’s okay to shut up and listen even if you had great intentions when you inadvertently did something that caused someone a lot of pain.
That place you’re being excluded from that should have welcomed you with open arms is probably not nearly as cool as the welcome place you’re taking for granted. But yes, you belong.
People won’t always be interested in what you have to say because you seem friendly or whatever, so don’t take that for granted, and build up the skills you need for that moment when nobody really cares that much anymore.
Never standing for anything is just a really boring place to be.
It’s never too late to get really good at something you used to ignore or blow off! But things aren’t linear so you can’t expect yourself to just keep improving forever.
Same, but different: you really do need to learn the same thing over and over and over again before it “takes” sometimes.
People who say their country is “the best” without ever having been anywhere else (or spending a substantial amount of time anywhere else) need to open up their mind. And no one place can be the best at everything.
Something can be incredibly difficult to do and not be “a sport.” (No, I don’t consider motorized anything to be a sport.)
Emergencies happen, but it's just really not okay to no-show, blow off meetings, call in 20 minutes late, constantly cancel, or habitually ghost people over email/text/etc. for days/weeks. Even if it seems fine and the other person says it's okay.
People should spend at least three times as much time time worrying about themselves than they do trying to control other people over nits. And you should always prioritize your nits.
Sometimes "I dislike how I feel when I DON'T do the thing more than I dislike doing the thing" is the only reason you need. (She says as she rolls out her yoga mat.)
What you do is more important than what it looks like (but style points are okay, too).
If you’re not trying to do something you’re awful at, then you’re not really learning, are you? Important both personally and professionally.
That said, it’s totally fine to quit things that really aren’t working for you and you probably should’ve done it sooner.
Being really loud and aggressive doesn’t make you right; being quiet and thoughtful doesn’t mean you’re wrong.
It’s important to find a balance between trying new fancy things and your old basic comforts that are objectively meh but you love ‘em.
