Composed Desire

Composed Desire

We look for traits in people before seeing if we embody those same traits in ourselves

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Umi
May 31, 2026
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你沒有開口。沒有要求。You embody.

I read once that the most dangerous thing about working at a big company is that you start calibrating yourself against the people around you. You become good relative to the room. You optimize for the local leaderboard. And the problem with local leaderboards is that they feel like progress while slowly narrowing your definition …

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