Hi Friends-
This week marks the final episode of Season One of my podcast Hurry Slowly! And I close things out with a personal meditation on dealing with unsolicited feedback, offering critiques that support creativity, and the pitfalls of living in an advice-driven culture. All in under 12 minutes. Listen to “The Feedback Rush.”
Hurry Slowly will return for a second season in October, and I’m already getting excited about the guest list I have percolating. If you need a calming fix in the meantime, there are 20+ hours of content from Season One, which you can browse here.
Now onwards to the best things I processed over the past week:
Resumé virtues vs eulogy virtues. A thoughtful piece on how to live a life based on your own script: “The résumé virtues are the ones you list on your résumé, the skills that you bring to the job market and that contribute to external success. The eulogy virtues are deeper. They’re the virtues that get talked about at your funeral, the ones that exist at the core of your being—whether you are kind, brave, honest or faithful; what kind of relationships you formed.”
The hole where all the success leaks out. A great article on the difference between amateurs and pros: “Amateur blunders take one of two forms: a tendency you’re aware of but don’t think is a big deal, or one you don’t even see. In both cases they’re essentially invisible to us until we either stumble across a better way, or (more often) a veteran points out the problem to us.”
If you wait until you’re ready, it might be too late. The Call Your Girlfriend podcast did a wonderful interview with Planned Parenthood head Cecile Richards that’s well worth a listen for practical ideas on how to be a great leader and fight for social change. If you think you’re not quite ready to make a leap in your career, as a manager, or even as an activist, this conversation will give you courage.
Drawing is part of a cure. “As kids,” Lynda Barry says, “we went to the page to find something, to have an experience. As adults, she says, “we have it backwards.” We think that we need to have an experience before we go to the page.
+ UIs that accidentally amass memories.
+ 10 tricks to look smart in meetings.
+ Instagram capitalism.
+ Time well $pent.
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SHOUT-OUTS:
Much appreciation to: Offscreen Magazine and CreativeMornings for link ideas.
The illustrations are from: Bram Vanhaeren, who is based in Antwerp, Belgium.
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Hi, I'm Jocelyn, the human behind this newsletter. I host the Hurry Slowly podcast — a new show about how you can be more productive, creative, and resilient by slowing down — write books that will help you reclaim your time, and give uncommonly useful talks.
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