YoungSeagull

Sometimes I get on Wikivoyage late at night and cry as I browse the travel guides for various countries. My time as a human and my resources are limited, and I will never get to see something like 90% of the places I want to visit. I won’t get to see the dunes meet the ocean in Namibia, instead I will spend more years in the company of warehouse equipment and boxes. I won’t get to hang out in Greenland trying to wrap my mouth around “qarasaasiaq” and struggling to find ... read more

I think people tend to underestimate how easy it is to fulfill a desire to "change the world". Everything you do, including existing, changes the world. Anything that improves my mental health is going to improve my interactions with everyone I encounter, and these improved interactions have a good chance of improving future interactions between the people I encountered and whoever they happen to interact with next. The level of responsibility this suggests may feel overwhelming, but ... read more

Whatever iceberg you’re looking at, rest assured this is at the bottom. This is the stuff of intense dreams, flowing from heaven to hell with no regard for space or time before you jolt awake and realize that you need to process what you can remember immediately, or the opportunity to learn something will be gone.

The first part is flawless, the third part is pretty good, and the middle is trash (with the exception of You’re Going Night Night!, which bangs).

The odds that I will become a millionaire, release a chart-topping single, or make the New York Times Bestsellers list are incredibly small, bordering on essentially impossible, but they are not zero. The possibility is still there, and it keeps things a little bit exciting. The shoestring budget industrial clatter of Rich White Man’s first project was not great, and it didn’t exactly inspire confidence that he would one day reach inside himself and deliver us something truly great. ... read more