> At the same time, the view you have of yourself is ruining it too. You are constantly devaluing and putting down your past selves and what they created. You dismiss your own writing as yapping, rambling, trash. You think it’s old, it’s cringe, it’s embarrassing, it’s not deep enough, no one cares about it, it doesn’t reflect your mental space 2 weeks later, so you burn it all down. You reinvent yourself over and over like an act of shame. Believe me, your stuff is great, and if you don’t become comfortable with sitting with old thoughts that aren’t how you currently feel, you’ll repeat this no matter what tool you use.
From the description in the Archive: “The Internet's Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews with his family and friends as well as the internet luminaries who worked with him. The film tells his story up to his eventual suicide after a legal battle, and explores the questions of access to information and civil liberties that drove his work.”
> At the same time, the view you have of yourself is ruining it too. You are constantly devaluing and putting down your past selves and what they created. You dismiss your own writing as yapping, rambling, trash. You think it’s old, it’s cringe, it’s embarrassing, it’s not deep enough, no one cares about it, it doesn’t reflect your mental space 2 weeks later, so you burn it all down. You reinvent yourself over and over like an act of shame. Believe me, your stuff is great, and if you don’t become comfortable with sitting with old thoughts that aren’t how you currently feel, you’ll repeat this no matter what tool you use.