10 things in my relatable log

you should do this too

I rarely feel confident enough to give anyone advice about anything, but here's something small that has made my life infinitely more enriching: a relatable log.

It's just a running private collection in Sublime—screenshots, random excerpts, bits of proof I'm not alone in fumbling through this being-human thing.

Here are a few from mine:

1. Haley Nahman
   wrote these words in her newsletter recently, which I proceeded to recite to my husband verbatim:
   
   The other day I said to Avi, “Either parenthood is insanely hard or I’m much lower-functioning than I thought.” The answer remains unclear.
   
   

2. I think about this all the time, via

   Henrik Karlsson
   :
   
   When you write online, there are strong incentives to write prose that is tightly packed with insights and fast moving and a little intense—to catch and hold attention. That can feel limiting. I wonder what is the slowest, calmest piece I could write that would still work?
   
   

3. I feel this so so so so much:
   
   “Why don’t you just delete social media?’ “I still want to find fun new content, and not miss out and hear from my favorite thinkers.”
   
   

4. Cate Hall
   this week:
   
   “In 10 years you will look back and think you were so hot. Can you think it now?”
   
   It's wild how I can take a photo, think I look terrible in the moment, then stumble upon it even a month later and realize I actually looked good.
   

5. Peak accuracy:
   
   “Starting a company is awesome if you want to feel like a piece of shit one day and king of the universe next day and just keep alternating back and forth forever and ever.”
   
   

6. I did not expect this from the founder of Red Bull but ditto:
   
   I don’t believe in 50 friends. I believe in a smaller number. Nor do I care about society events. It’s the most senseless use of time. When I do go out, from time to time, it’s just to convince myself again that I’m not missing a lot.
   
   

7. This excerpt from the mother/founder book:

   

8. Same Phil, same:
   
   I wanted to build something that was my own, something I could point to and say: I made that. It was the only way I saw to make life meaningful.
   (Phil Knight, Nike founder, from Shoe Dog)
   

9. I feel like the thing I am bottlenecked by is my ability to express myself in a clear way. Here is a related thought I saved, via

   starting from nix ꩜
   :
   
   “When I look back in my notes I realize so much of what I write about today I was ruminating about 2-3 years ago. I always knew what I was going to say. I just didn’t have the tools, I didn’t have the maturity, I didn’t have the language or sensitivity to beauty to recognize what that was. So much of what I learned was latent, unexpressed because I wasn’t ready. I had to stick with it. I had to wring it out with time, effort, intention.”
   
   

10. Jasmine Sun
    , on the internet:
    
    “I’m still not over the fact that I have 24 hour access to a machine that has memorized and synthesized the entire internet’s worth of information. None of us know how to know this much.”
    
    This captures something I struggle with daily; how do you tend to your children and be present in mundane moments, when you could instead get the instant dopamine hit of the world's best ideas? The competition between presence and endless intellectual stimulation feels impossible to navigate. We have 24/7 access to everything, but no framework for living with that responsibly.

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