social environments nudge people towards making themselves and their work more legible in ways that are less-than-ideal for the individual. this is for the convenience of the system, and the deal is validation...
wait this might make more sense as a meme:
beautiful little collection by @jddwor on the everyday abundance we sometimes take for granted!
also reminded me of the french professor supermarket tweet again, and just a general gratitude for many of our modern life achievements
In 1843, Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote to a friend after seeing her first daguerreotype: “The very shadow of the person lying there fixed for ever! … I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest artist’s work ever produced.”
Our lives and homes are filled with things that once inspired similar awe. I tried to collect those feelings, in quotes like the one above, from people for whom what is now ordinary was brand new. A friar who met the inventor of eyeglasses, a founding father on the new smallpox vaccine, a woman in Iowa on her family’s first indoor bathroom. To look at a modern apartment through their eyes: https://t.co/3Nsti34aS2
beginners are comparing themselves to Beyoncé
but it's important to know that Beyoncé herself would not have matched up to Beyoncé now
because Beyoncé now is not just Beyoncé, but Beyoncé with tonnes of experience and an entire team supporting her
@NathanpmYoung@maebichka these on the other hand all give me a bit of 'i'm not too sure of myself' vibe or smth? idk might be wrong too, would love to hear how you see this