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You don't miss them. You miss who you were with them.
On the selves that only exist inside certain connections
 • stepfanie tyler
The late January reckoning: why your resolutions are failing (and how to get back on track)
It’s January 29th, and if you’re reading this, you’re probably starting to feel it.
 • stepfanie tyler
If no one's told you, you're allowed to be many things
If no one’s told you, you’re allowed to be many things.
 • stepfanie tyler
The difference between being right and being interesting
Correctness is maintenance. Interesting is creation.
 • stepfanie tyler
“No” is my love language
We live in a culture that worships the “yes”
 • stepfanie tyler
Is anyone else just... sick of everything?
Sometimes you can just look at the world and think, “this is fucked,” and leave it at that. You don’t always have to figure out what it means. You can…
 • stepfanie tyler
The audience of none (part 2): what happens when you actually stop performing
Earlier this year I wrote a piece about the relief of realizing no one is really watching you. About how most of the judgment we carry around is…
 • stepfanie tyler
The curse of wanting to articulate everything
There’s this state I fall into sometimes where I have so much to say that I don’t say anything at all.
 • stepfanie tyler
Most of your limitations aren't real and you can *actually* just do things
There’s an old anecdote about how circus trainers used to keep elephants from escaping, and the first time I heard it, I felt like it cracked my entire…
 • stepfanie tyler
The gift of being told no
A reflection on turning setbacks into redirects
 • stepfanie tyler
Building a mind that can't be fucked with
There’s a genre of viral video I can’t stop watching: someone at a protest holding a sign, chanting slogans, visibly fired up about their cause.
 • stepfanie tyler
High-agency people are annoying; that's the point
People have been calling me “intense” since I was a little girl.
 • stepfanie tyler
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