Oof, well, that was awkward
Oh, hi friends!
It feels uncomfortable to be challenged. To be pushed. To be made better.
The most uncomfortable part might be realizing how few people push you at all.
This week I’m leaning in to the micro failures, asking for more help, and trying to give even 1% extra to the people who care enough to want—and expect—more from me. Wanna join?
"Heaps of pencil cores wait piled against a concrete wall, like an arsenal of gray spaghetti. Hundreds of pencils sit stacked in honeycomb towers. Wood shavings fly as fresh pencils are dragged across the sharpening machine, a wheel of fast-spinning sandpaper."
Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories. A gorgeous photo series by Christopher Payne and essay by Sam Anderson. Time to break out the Ticonderogas.
Alarmy is an alarm clock app that makes you get out of bed and take a photo of a specific place in your apartment, or shake your phone, or solve a math problem to turn off the alarm. I might need this? But also would probably figure out how to do all these tasks in my sleep, completely sabotaging the app's purpose.
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara