I'm not sure there's any number of Facebook likes that can replace a hug.

If you'd rather be a chooser, enter a market or a transaction where you have something to trade, something of value, something to offer that's difficult to get everywhere else. If all you have is the desire to get picked, that's not sufficient.

It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't measure well by conventional means.

Cosmo Girl with a passion for fashion and a magic flask.

There is no other way to change your physical reality but by changing your thoughts.

We have been brainwashed by school, indoctrinated by industrial propaganda, and mesmerized by the popular media into believing that compliance is not only safe but right and necessary.

A good job is largely anonymous and forgotten (but still important). A personal job, on the other hand, is humanized. It brings us closer together. It might not be remarkable, but it stands out as memorable because (however briefly) the recipient of the work was touched by someone else. Often, remarkable work is personal too, but personal might just be enough for today.