Hi There In A Business Email Is Basically Code For I Intend To Be A Persistent Irritation

“Hi there” in a business email is basically code for “I intend to be a persistent irritation”

“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Everyone on the New York City subway smells bad, everyone, all of them, every last soul, BUT I got one of those lady conductors who opens up her door and straight-up chastises people who are being disruptive and horrible to the other commuters and I?? Love??? These conductors???

Every time I get one of them I love it. I love the old school, “I don’t play, be polite or get out,” attentive af(usually black or latinx) women of the MTA. I love when they tell people to mind their damn manners. I love when they evict screaming men from their trains. I love when they stare down rude dudes who are creeping on commuters. I love when they shout from their train windows, “yo!! You got a crazy person on your train!! I kicked him off mine, now he’s on yours!!” because they have the other conductors’ backs.

Everyone has a different spirit of New York but these women are the truest. May they all get raises, may their union be strong, may they look that new British MTA president — you know, the one with the whimsical New Yorker profile — dead in the eye and frighten and awe him with what they have witnessed and triumphed over. They are good elements, the women of the MTA. I. Love. Them.

Anxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego. You’re so sure you’ll do everything wrong you’re afraid to do anything at all. Often this, rather than “laziness” is the real reason you find it hard to get started.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig  (via witch-lyfe)

A bad idea written down is far better and far more useful to you than a blank sheet of paper and a mythical piece of brilliance that has been stuck in your head out of fear of failure. Go ahead and fail. Then make it better.

My screenwriting prof.

I felt like a lot of people needed to hear this. Including myself.

(via shaelinwrites)