Looking back, I have mixed feelings about this post (and series).
On the one hand, I think they’re getting at something really important. Rereading them, I feel like they’re pointing to a stance I aspire to inhabit, and there’s some value in the pointers they’re giving. I’m not sure that I know better content on quite this topic.
On the other hand, they feel … kind of slightly half-baked, or naming something-in-the-vicinity of what matters, rather than giving the true name of the thing. I don’t find myself naturally drawn to linking people to this, because I feel a dissatisfaction that it’s something-like-rambling rather than being the best version of itself.
I do still hope that someone else thinks about this material, reinvents a better version for themself, and writes about that.
Looking back, I have mixed feelings about this post (and series).
On the one hand, I think they’re getting at something really important. Rereading them, I feel like they’re pointing to a stance I aspire to inhabit, and there’s some value in the pointers they’re giving. I’m not sure that I know better content on quite this topic.
On the other hand, they feel … kind of slightly half-baked, or naming something-in-the-vicinity of what matters, rather than giving the true name of the thing. I don’t find myself naturally drawn to linking people to this, because I feel a dissatisfaction that it’s something-like-rambling rather than being the best version of itself.
I do still hope that someone else thinks about this material, reinvents a better version for themself, and writes about that.