Komal Saini

on the atlas · 16

• Agnes Callard’s Marriage of the Minds | The New Yorker9 savers
• Chris Hayduk (e/acc) on X: "@var_epsilon Yep, you need to enter the hyperbolic time chamber in your 20s so you can be cracked in your 30s. Otherwise the cracked college grads will eat your lunch Some people think they can take their foot off the gas with learning once they get out of college, but it’s actually the…" / X1 savers
• Nan Goldin | The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, excerpts, 19863 savers
• Reality has a surprising amount of detail49 savers
• The House of Inner Tranquillity Podcast / "Memories and Regrets" by Paul Harris1 savers
• Sherry on Twitter: "I reread @jk_rowling’s 2008 Harvard speech a lot, especially this line: “There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”" / Twitter1 savers
• The Tail End — Wait But Why26 savers
• jeremy on Twitter: "it seems most of the time, the object of desire is always already ensconced in some future dream state. this continues until around our 30s, when it reverses, and we start desiring the past. what this all has in common: we never want the present https://t.co/KANgRF9bDk" / Twitter1 savers
• Fun vs Fulfillment Revisited - James Quiambao2 savers
• How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) — Wait But Why61 savers
• Joan Didion, The Art of Fiction39 savers
• Theory of Change (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)84 savers
• getting in/out of a funk - by Isabel - Mind Mine8 savers
• Childhoods of exceptional people - by Henrik Karlsson28 savers
• The Missing Semester of Your CS Education · the missing semester of your cs education20 savers
• 🐇🌷bosco🌷🐇 on Twitter: "something a bit funny about growing up and settling down is the sheer # of people who have some crazy, confusing social dynamic in their late teens or 20s that produces bizarre behavior from everyone involved, that weighs on them for years bc it's so difficult to contextualize" / Twitter1 savers

highlights · 2

• Now that I’m graduated, this piece resonates even more. After school, you gain autonomy over your time, especially if you work in the tech field; typically, the traditional path for new grads looks like this: Work 9-5 Watch Netflix or doomscroll Social Media or YouTube in the evenings Party, date, and hang out with friends on the weekends The traditional path after graduation defaults to “fun” activities.

  Fun vs Fulfillment Revisited - James Quiambao

• anyways, if you're in the "wtf just happened" stage right now...you may be altered by the experience but you are by no means irredeemable and there's a 95% chance that your experience is way more common than you think

  🐇🌷bosco🌷🐇 on Twitter: "something a bit funny about growing up and settling down is the sheer # of people who have some crazy, confusing social dynamic in their late teens or 20s that produces bizarre behavior from everyone involved, that weighs on them for years bc it's so difficult to contextualize" / Twitter