This Week - Aug 15, 2014

Darkness may find me, but I shall never choose it.

— Why I’m Leaving Death Cab for Cutie (Chris Walla for The Stranger)

Giving a shit does not necessarily mean you’re doing anything useful, but it makes it seem like you are. It feels like there’s some kind of justice that you’re getting closer to with every moment you give a shit. But that’s not true, because giving a shit, by itself, is only thinking — and thinking has little use aside from figuring out what to do.

— The elegant art of not giving a shit (David Cain for Raptitude)

I’ve always had one foot in and one foot out of everything I’ve done. Writing is the only thing I’ve committed to with both feet in the water, for better or for worse.

— Behind the Till (Chloe Caldwell for Medium)

You are your own decision maker. You can ask other people for their help, their advice, their counsel. But at the end of the day you are your own captain. You are your own life raft. You are your own boat. And if there is no wind, row.

— If there is no wind, row (Sloane Davidson for Medium)

L.A. is lonely by design. I had plenty of friends and a thriving social life, but isolation is still inevitable because the city is a massive sprawl where you can’t avoid being by yourself for long bouts of time, under any circumstances.

— New York City and L.A. are Equally Terrible Places to Live (Ernest Baker for Gawker)