Three women of different ages and backgrounds discuss their relationships with makeup. They share their reasons for wearing makeup, including enhancing their natural beauty, transforming themselves through art, and using it as a shield or to distance themselves. They also discuss the role of social media in promoting a certain beauty standard and the pressure to conform to it. They acknowledge the importance of being comfortable with one’s natural self and express the desire for a society where makeup is not a requirement and people are not judged based on their appearance.
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Worble World
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Slow learning
itcilo.orgMuch more in there, but the basics:
- Focus on direction, not destination
Immerse yourself completely in the journey and you will reach your final goal gradually.- Raise your hand
Asking questions is a fundamental human right.- Learn at your own pace
Find your rhythm, find your flow. Don’t compare yourself to others.- Unplug
You have the right to disconnect and move your attention towards what’s essential. Learn unplugged, far away from digital distractions.- Change your learning path (and mind)
Don’t get too comfortable in the habit zone and start with changing the aversion to change. Think differently and learn new things.- Take a break
Micro-breaks, lunch breaks, and longer breaks will all improve your learning performance. You have the right to rest.- Make mistakes
Don’t fall into despair but Fail Forward.- Leave it unfinished
We live in a super busy, multi-tasking, results-oriented society. Step away from your long to-do list and enjoy once in a while the beauty of an unstructured day.- Unlearn and forget
Harness the power of unlearning. Reboot your mind, abandon old knowledge, actions and behaviours to create space.- Slow down
Sometimes slow and steady will win the learning race. Make haste slowly.
It's Not the Bike Lane’s Fault You’re a Bad Driver
jalopnik.comI’m sorry to break it to anyone who has trouble keeping their car out of a bike lane (or off a concrete barrier), but it’s not the bike lane’s fault you’re a shitty driver. If you hit something stationary, that’s your fault. Pay attention to the fucking road while you’re driving. It’s not too much to ask when other people’s lives are literally at stake.
How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain
quantamagazine.orgNeuroscience suggests that loneliness doesn’t necessarily result from a lack of opportunity to meet others or a fear of social interactions. Instead, circuits in our brain and changes in our behavior can trap us in a catch-22 situation: While we desire connection with others, we view them as unreliable, judgmental and unfriendly. Consequently, we keep our distance, consciously or unconsciously spurning potential opportunities for connections.
The Puzzling Gap Between How Old You Are and How Old You Think You Are
theatlantic.comWhy do so many people have an immediate, intuitive grasp of this highly abstract concept—“subjective age,” it’s called—when randomly presented with it? It’s bizarre, if you think about it. Certainly most of us don’t believe ourselves to be shorter or taller than we actually are. We don’t think of ourselves as having smaller ears or longer noses or curlier hair. Most of us also know where our bodies are in space, what physiologists call “proprioception.”
Yet we seem to have an awfully rough go of locating ourselves in time. A friend, nearing 60, recently told me that whenever he looks in the mirror, he’s not so much unhappy with his appearance as startled by it—“as if there’s been some sort of error” were his exact words.
The Humbling Tyranny Of The Photos Our Kids Take Of Us
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As unbecoming as they may be, the portrait a child takes might be the most frank visual diary of contemporary parenthood that can be found on one’s bloated camera roll. They are technicolor tributes to what it felt like to be in these homebound moments together, featuring us as we are, with a lot of chins, a lot of cellulite, a lot of messy hair. The photos do what kids do best: they wholeheartedly engage with the present moment.
Believe it or not, the Amish are loving electric bikes
electrek.co…That means electric bicycles, which have become a much lower impact solution than cars, are booming in many Amish communities.
It’s a lot quicker to jump on your bike and go into town than it is to bring your horse into the barn, harness it to the buggy, and go. It’s a lot quicker and you travel faster too.
Everyone needs to grow up
dazeddigital.comIn an age where so much agency has been taken away from young adults, when they face futures saddled with debt, unable to access the basic material trappings of adulthood… a retreat into the dubious comforts of a pseudo-childhood will have its pull
The tech tycoon martyrdom charade
anildash.comI’ve been saying this for a few years now, but it’s worth recording here for the record: It’s impossible to overstate the degree to which many big tech CEOs and venture capitalists are being radicalized by living within their own cultural and social bubble. Their level of paranoia and contrived self-victimization is off the charts, and is getting worse now that they increasingly only consume media that they have funded, created by their own acolytes.