“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” a former math whiz at Facebook recently lamented.33


“Do people in my community know this is here? Are they aware of how they helped shape this history that is often talked about without them?”
― How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
― How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
“Have you ever felt joy for more than a few minutes? What about anger? No? How about tension, depression, and sadness? Those have lasted longer, haven’t they? Weeks and months and years at a time, right? That’s because those aren’t feelings. They are symptoms. But we’ll get to their causes in a minute. What you have to know is that suffering is just the refusal to accept what is. That’s it. Etymologically, it comes from the Latin word to “from below to bear.” Or, to “resist, endure, put under.” So healing is really just letting yourself feel.”
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
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