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Wakanda Forever. Walk good. 28all. Eya. *IL* The Warm-Up: “The struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose.” ~Chadwick Boseman… R.I.P. King The Core: “Your job is to do the work, not judge it.” ~James Clear “Look for the small improvements, recognize those successes, and let them be a big deal.” ~Elise Cripe “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr. “You have emotional stability, accepting reality without it driving you crazy.” ~Morgan Housel, Alternative Forms of Wealth “We’re not on our journey to save the world, but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world.” ~Joseph Campbell “Start as soon as you can because: 1) It takes many more years than you think. 2) You have far less time than you think.” ~Orange Book “You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain.” ~James Baldwin, The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity, 1963 “Choosing the right problems to work on matters more than the effort you bring. Don’t waste your energy on linear problems. The right problems offer embedded leverage.” ~Shane Parrish “Reading Baldwin’s writing in this moment demanded a level of honesty in me that threatened to crack the foundation of the world I had created. The very thing I feared about him in graduate school, I experienced as a fifty-plus-year-old man. He exposes your private lies and forces you, because of his own relentless commitment to the examined life, to confront your deepest wounds as a precondition for saying anything about the world.” ~Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again “I think that there is a wonderful danger in God that we have totally forgotten. Because one of the things humanoids like to do is they like to bring in the tamers to tame their deities down. They don’t like the idea of a wild God, because it could get very awkward, and deeply embarrassing…And one of the reasons that young people are leaving religion is because God has died for them, or become incredibly boring and uninteresting. And I think one of the tasks of our time, for those that are interested in God, is to make God dangerous again.” ~John O’Donohue “We often discuss the technical skills that you need to get a job – but ignore the soft skills that often play a much more impactful role than we care to admit. Knowing how to relate to someone else is, in my opinion, more important in a broad sense than crafting the perfect spreadsheet or writing excellent code. I fear when we tie our professional selves so tightly to our self worth, we forget our underlying sense of rich humanity and a foundation of compassion.” ~Paige Doherty, On Quality Conversations: How to Have Intro Calls that Don’t Suck Last Set: “In the end, we cannot hide from each other. When we imprison our fellows in categories that cut off their humanity from our own, we end up imprisoning ourselves. We can’t hide behind the mask either. We have to run toward the trouble that makes us afraid of life. We have to choose life, Baldwin repeatedly said. Salvation is found there: in accepting the beauty and the ugliness of who we are in our most vulnerable moments in communion with each other. There, in love, a profound mutuality develops and becomes the basis for genuine democratic community where we all can flourish, if we so choose. This was his prayer, and it is my own.” ~Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again Food for Thought: “Systemic problems…demand systemic solutions. First, we have to pay attention. Then we need to acknowledge that a solution is possible. And then we need to commit. To the long, persistent road to altering the status quo. The world is forcing us to pay attention to lingering problems more urgently than ever before. Real change on issues of dignity, justice and health are long overdue. Urgent problems are too important to earn only a moment of our attention. Important projects demand that we keep showing up to make the change we seek. Showing up and showing up, at the root and at every turn, consistently working toward systemic solutions. When we think about the problems we’ve solved as a community, this is the way it always happens. Making things better, over time, with focus. Persistent commitment doesn’t lower the urgency of the moment, it acknowledges it.” ~Seth Godin
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