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(a commonplace book belonging to Jeevs Sinclair)

Jan 23

» Laura Dekker vows never to return home

for fear of “being taken into care” by Dutch child services for having become the youngest person to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe against their wishes.

Jan 22

FATHER: Such a long time at sea by herself, with wind, rain and waves, she will be cured.
DAUGHTER: No, I have an appetite for more …

Jan 21

The Believer spoke over the phone with Joan Didion

JD: I think it develops into a fairly stable thing over time. I think it’s not at all stable at first. But then you kind of grow into the role you have made for yourself.
BLVR: How do you gauge the distance between the role you have made for yourself—
JD: —and the real person?
BLVR: Yeah.
JD: Well, I don’t know. The real person becomes the role you have made for yourself.

Jan 19

» Sci-Fi Writer William Gibson Speaks Easy

Jan 17

» Where the Generals Meditate …

WIRED goes inside the Pentagon’s Alt-Medicine Mecca.

Jan 16

» Violet Blue on Depression, Suicide and Asperger’s

I was always struck by the immense pressure the Stanford students felt to keep the illusion that they were doing well. We would refer to it as the Stanford Duck Syndrome: everyone gave the illusion that they were gliding elegantly across the water, but nobody could see that beneath the surface they were paddling like crazy to keep up.

My observation is that many people in tech culture experience similar pressure to maintain a public image. They are fearful of exposing their vulnerabilities to others or asking for help.