hello, it is I, one (of those) strangers from the internet who only uses substack to follow Tomas Pueyo's Uncharted Territories (unintentional plug for a VERY intentional and amazing data science-based newsletter), who stumbled upon your 'stack some months back by... I don't even know how-lgorithmically? Read (most of, #ThanksADHD) one of your ~recent pieces at the time and was gob smacked by how much it both resonated and felt like a kindred soul typing theirs into the ether.
I hadn't really checked back in since (I tend to read UT via email, rarely 'stacked; also that ADHD again...), but today your post came to my e-post and I decided to lean in - because y'know, i totally wasn't doing anything better/three other things at the time...
Well... I'm glad I did. For sooooo many reasons that I won't get into here (if u can believe such self-censorship is possible!), your waxing on performance, your screed on Social Meds, and ESPECIALLY your meta-consideration of The Other(s), really resounded within me as I, -- also a dinosaur millennial pseudo-performer who used to DAU on FB 'til it got too toxic during DJT I and I more or less quit socials altogether cuz the IG UX sucks absolute donkey-D and TikToks? ummm thx but no tox -- have also felt The Call (of/2b wild n' social n' free) and have slowwwly been tippy-toeing back into FB postin' (how quaint!) and considering some of the same things you wrote about.
I felt called to respond here to add a +1 (erm, maybe a -1?) to the void/ether/Light/whathaveyou that there exist others who don't want to just_scream, who want to actively and intentionally and with wit, grace, compassion and Marty-Mauser*-GET-IT-DONE-ness-but-with-200%-more-Empathy find a way to still do the things we enjoy (have always enjoyed) and post and share and dance and laugh about, while trying to do some kind of world-healing while we're (all) at it.
*sorry, I moved to LA from NYC a couple years ago for my (now-) fiancé, and movies are kind of a big deal here and I just saw Marty Supreme and loved it, can you tell?
One of my #someday aspirations is to do something like you do, Amber: a fun quirky bloggy-type thing in 100%-my-own-voice-and-you-can-take-and/or-leave-all-them-cares that endeavors to entertain but also inspire, to humor but also heal (please forgive me if that is not the right takeaway here...).
I look forward to taking more initiative to ingest -- I almost typed "consume" but that feels... not right. so not right -- more of your pieces in future. I hope this initial greeting didn't come off too strong, but I let myself kind of run wild with minimal filter here since I was excited and felt very inspired, lol.
ALSO: semi-obligatory but-also-earnest (hmm, sounds like something else... wat's it called again? oh ya, LIFE) remark that your smile is GREAT just the way it is!
thank you, i’m so glad it moved you! it is mostly compulsion because if i don’t write about these things they continue to bounce around in the brain distracting me. i also have adhd and writing is a great focusing exercise for me
It's funny you say it's like that for you, because I tend to have the opposite problem: if i don't write it down SOMEwhere, it goes poof! and all I'm left with later (if i remember2remember 'tall) is a memory like "wow, I had a really cute/amazing metaphor for how life and/or existence works that I could probably use in a film/book/Great Work that I want to make someday, I wonder what that thing was?"
So in some ways my exigence to write is also/always compulsory: we MUST lest we FORGET
hello, it is I, one (of those) strangers from the internet who only uses substack to follow Tomas Pueyo's Uncharted Territories (unintentional plug for a VERY intentional and amazing data science-based newsletter), who stumbled upon your 'stack some months back by... I don't even know how-lgorithmically? Read (most of, #ThanksADHD) one of your ~recent pieces at the time and was gob smacked by how much it both resonated and felt like a kindred soul typing theirs into the ether.
I hadn't really checked back in since (I tend to read UT via email, rarely 'stacked; also that ADHD again...), but today your post came to my e-post and I decided to lean in - because y'know, i totally wasn't doing anything better/three other things at the time...
Well... I'm glad I did. For sooooo many reasons that I won't get into here (if u can believe such self-censorship is possible!), your waxing on performance, your screed on Social Meds, and ESPECIALLY your meta-consideration of The Other(s), really resounded within me as I, -- also a dinosaur millennial pseudo-performer who used to DAU on FB 'til it got too toxic during DJT I and I more or less quit socials altogether cuz the IG UX sucks absolute donkey-D and TikToks? ummm thx but no tox -- have also felt The Call (of/2b wild n' social n' free) and have slowwwly been tippy-toeing back into FB postin' (how quaint!) and considering some of the same things you wrote about.
I felt called to respond here to add a +1 (erm, maybe a -1?) to the void/ether/Light/whathaveyou that there exist others who don't want to just_scream, who want to actively and intentionally and with wit, grace, compassion and Marty-Mauser*-GET-IT-DONE-ness-but-with-200%-more-Empathy find a way to still do the things we enjoy (have always enjoyed) and post and share and dance and laugh about, while trying to do some kind of world-healing while we're (all) at it.
*sorry, I moved to LA from NYC a couple years ago for my (now-) fiancé, and movies are kind of a big deal here and I just saw Marty Supreme and loved it, can you tell?
One of my #someday aspirations is to do something like you do, Amber: a fun quirky bloggy-type thing in 100%-my-own-voice-and-you-can-take-and/or-leave-all-them-cares that endeavors to entertain but also inspire, to humor but also heal (please forgive me if that is not the right takeaway here...).
I look forward to taking more initiative to ingest -- I almost typed "consume" but that feels... not right. so not right -- more of your pieces in future. I hope this initial greeting didn't come off too strong, but I let myself kind of run wild with minimal filter here since I was excited and felt very inspired, lol.
ALSO: semi-obligatory but-also-earnest (hmm, sounds like something else... wat's it called again? oh ya, LIFE) remark that your smile is GREAT just the way it is!
thank you, i’m so glad it moved you! it is mostly compulsion because if i don’t write about these things they continue to bounce around in the brain distracting me. i also have adhd and writing is a great focusing exercise for me
I thought I espied a fellow neuro-div'er ;-)
It's funny you say it's like that for you, because I tend to have the opposite problem: if i don't write it down SOMEwhere, it goes poof! and all I'm left with later (if i remember2remember 'tall) is a memory like "wow, I had a really cute/amazing metaphor for how life and/or existence works that I could probably use in a film/book/Great Work that I want to make someday, I wonder what that thing was?"
So in some ways my exigence to write is also/always compulsory: we MUST lest we FORGET
I think there’s a gut feeling inside that made you choose to hide her face and I think trusting that feeling was a smart move.