You’re allowed to be complicated. Nobody said you had to fit in a bio.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

Short descriptions are useful for strangers and terrible for people. You can be competitive and generous, shy in one room and loud in another, serious about a thing you also make fun of. None of that is inconsistency, it is the ordinary width of a person. The pressure to be one coherent brand comes from formats that were built for products.

Notice where you edit yourself to stay consistent with a version people already hold. Let one contradiction stand this week without explaining it away. The people worth having around will find it more interesting than the tidy version.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which part of you never fits into a short introduction?

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