Pinned for you
The list I've been meaning to send.
I wrote twenty essays here since January. I’ve been counting.
What I haven’t been counting: the tabs I’ve opened, saved, abandoned, reopened at midnight, and finally!! decided to share with you.
That’s what this issue is. The pile, the curation, the best to check out from other authors & creators. The things I kept meaning to send.
But first, something I have to tell you. Perceptio is getting a podcast. Here, on Substack. The first episodes are recorded. I have done the thing I said I would do, which is terrifying, because now there’s no taking it back.
To be honest, writing is home to me. Podcasting is someone else’s neighborhood lol louder, less controlled, more face. I’m moving in anyway. Growth lives in the uncomfortable zip code, apparently.
More very soon.
For now, scroll. See what grabs you. Follow the thread that makes you go wait, tell me more. That’s the whole point.
With love, Kima
2 articles, 2 songs, 2 quotes
Work, credentials & the Internet
Janel Abrahami watched a furniture flipper go viral with her almost exact words and her exact thesis. And instead of just being mad about it, she asked the more uncomfortable question: so what? The credentials she’d spent years accumulating weren’t the point. They never were, at least not in the space they were both suddenly playing in. This is the most honest thing I’ve read about credentials, attention, and who actually gets to be an expert now. Read it:
Benjamin Antoine writes about a related disorientation: the asymmetry between watching full-time creators and trying to imitate them while holding down an actual life. The fitness influencer whose entire day is structured around the routine they’re selling you. The advice that was never designed for your actual life structure. This one is for anyone building something on the side on top of a full-time job and quietly wondering why the playbook keeps not working.
Cinematic, if You'll allow it
Two songs. No common thread except the one you’ll find yourself. Put them on and let the afternoon get a little bigger.
Things worth sitting with
The Paris Review has been publishing interviews since 1953. Somehow they still find the sentences that stop you mid-scroll. 2 quotes by two legends.