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“My own psychic burden was that I could command a six-figure salary, yet I did not know how to do anything. Whatever I learned to do in my late twenties, I learned from online tutorials: how to remove mold from a windowsill; slow-cook fish; straighten a cowlick; self-administer a breast exam. Whenever I wrenched a piece of self-assembly furniture into place, or reinforced a loose button, I experienced an unfamiliar and antiquated type of satisfaction. I went so far as to buy a sewing machine, like I was looking for ways to shame myself.a”
― Uncanny Valley
― Uncanny Valley
“There is no comfort like complicity.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“If the personalized playlists were full of sad singer-songwriters, I could only blame myself for getting the algorithm depressed.”
― Uncanny Valley
― Uncanny Valley
“Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.”
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“Why did it feel so taboo, I asked, to approach work the way most people did, as a trade of my time and labor for money? Why did we have to pretend it was all so fun?
Leah nodded, curls bobbing. ‘That's real,’ she said. ‘But I wonder if you're forcing things. Your job can be in service of the rest of your life.”
― Uncanny Valley
Leah nodded, curls bobbing. ‘That's real,’ she said. ‘But I wonder if you're forcing things. Your job can be in service of the rest of your life.”
― Uncanny Valley
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