I want to push back on the Marie Kondo/Joshua Harris article a little. Some of The Discourse I saw on the bird app made me cringe a little bit. I know it’s tongue-in-cheek, but it’s possible to read the statement “read no self-help book until the author is at least 40 with kids” as “younger or childless people have no, or at least less, wisdom to offer the world.” Bleh! That’s not true! I wish I had seen a little more acknowledgement of that in that conversation (on an app not built for nuance, etc. etc. 😊)
yes, Twitter is famous for having fully-developed conversations ;-) and for the record, I have many wise friends who are under 40, single, and/or childless.
Here are a few things it made me think about (in no particular order):
1. the interview with Mike Cosper in which Mike asked Josh, "don't you feel like your instant fame might have exacerbated some of this?" and Josh kept saying, "nah, it must have been something else..."
2. the feelings I get when I hear my younger mom friends are reading parenting books by women whose oldest children are in third grade, and I think about the things I might want to have told myself at that stage of parenting and the things I would've avoided.
3. how people confuse having fame with having wisdom, especially in the age of social media.
4. how much TGC got pushback for naming their new initiative after a (old and I think wise) person.
It's all very fraught. Maybe the Greeks had it right. ha!
I want to push back on the Marie Kondo/Joshua Harris article a little. Some of The Discourse I saw on the bird app made me cringe a little bit. I know it’s tongue-in-cheek, but it’s possible to read the statement “read no self-help book until the author is at least 40 with kids” as “younger or childless people have no, or at least less, wisdom to offer the world.” Bleh! That’s not true! I wish I had seen a little more acknowledgement of that in that conversation (on an app not built for nuance, etc. etc. 😊)
yes, Twitter is famous for having fully-developed conversations ;-) and for the record, I have many wise friends who are under 40, single, and/or childless.
Here are a few things it made me think about (in no particular order):
1. the interview with Mike Cosper in which Mike asked Josh, "don't you feel like your instant fame might have exacerbated some of this?" and Josh kept saying, "nah, it must have been something else..."
2. the feelings I get when I hear my younger mom friends are reading parenting books by women whose oldest children are in third grade, and I think about the things I might want to have told myself at that stage of parenting and the things I would've avoided.
3. how people confuse having fame with having wisdom, especially in the age of social media.
4. how much TGC got pushback for naming their new initiative after a (old and I think wise) person.
It's all very fraught. Maybe the Greeks had it right. ha!