the best days of your life don’t announce themselves, they’re always disguised…you only recognize them later, when the people are older and you’d give anything to stand there one more time
you can do everything right and still lose, the world’s not fair. you just have to figure out if you can be the kind of person who can survive a world that doesn’t grade on effort.
the best scribe in 1450 still got replaced. the best switchboard operator in 1980 still got replaced. the best knowledge worker in 2026 still gets replaced if all they do is operate.
I can't believe I've thought about this quote, "the road less traveled" outside of its actual context all of my life
its more like we agonize over identical paths, then later tell ourselves the story that our choice mattered.
@DavidEpstein