when you’re younger and dating you might not notice it, but as you get older you start realizing how important curiosity is. someone not asking questions, not wanting to know you… is an instant ick.
One of my favorite things about traveling is how it shatters the illusion that the life you’ve always known is the only way to live. It reminds you that there are countless ways to live, and yours is just one of them.
I think my biggest neurodivergent tell is that I'm visibly uncomfortable during small talk, yet totally at peace when someone starts oversharing the weirdest shit I've ever heard.
Most modern billionaires are just so tacky. Go endow a library. Fund research and get your name on a cancer center. Sponsor an eccentric polymath who’s obsessed with marble. Build a museum. Fund public parks. Back climate research. Create something that outlives your ego.
A Starbucks barista told me she works 38 hours a week so her employer doesn't have to give her benefits. She makes $14 an hour, which comes about $2,100 a month before taxes. Her rent is $1,400. We have decided as a society that this is her problem and not ours, and I think about that every time someone tells me to just tip more.