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What's Sticky? about Ambition
If you’re thinking to yourself, self, it sure has been a long time since this bozo sent out a What’s Sticky? all I have to say in my defense is you are correct. I’ve mentioned before that my MacBook crashed all-the-way dead and I lost years of all my nicely organized email folders full of various topics and links for What’s Sticky posts. So. I’ve had to start from scratch and I have to say, I’ve missed linking to things! Especially now that my former home for linking to things (Twitter) is also all-the-way dead.
Hey speaking of egocentric fuckwits who ruin things, let’s talk about ambition! Before my life went off the rails and onto some very different rails a year and a half ago, I was working myself up over an essay about ambition and walking away from it. I was shopping it around like absolute mad (irony alert). I can’t bring myself to reread it now. I’m convinced it’s roughly 3000 words of cringe, as the youths say. But that certainly hasn’t kept me from being entranced by ambition as a topic. You too? Well, follow me this way ….
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