This Week - Oct 30, 2015

So I took a long, hard, serious look at myself, and concluded that some things needed to change.

— Seven Things I Did To Reboot My Life (Wil Wheaton for WilWheaton.net)

’People care about provenance, and they care about ethics,’ said Mr. Valenti, who at 35 is part of a generation of technology-conscious music executives with no experience of the industry’s pre-Napster days. ‘I like the idea of Ghostly as a community of people that has an ethos and an approach, and I think audiences appreciate these whimsical notions that there is an artistic attribute to doing things in this small-batch or D.I.Y. way.’

— Ghostly Transcends Its Record Label Roots to Sell an Ethos (Ben Sisario for The New York Times)

I think the bottom line is that most of us need a lot from other people, but we don’t always feel like we deserve much. We feel spoiled and we also feel boring. We’re furious at ourselves, furious that we can’t just enjoy what we have (the privileges we have, the embarrassment of riches around us!), furious that we can’t just join the team and play our roles enthusiastically. Why don’t I like my amazing job? Why don’t I feel connected to my caring friends? Why don’t I love my nice boyfriend?

— Ask Polly: Why Do You Always Tell People to Go to Therapy? (Heather Havrilesky for The Cut)

I suppose that people who live with passion start out with an especially intense desire to complete themselves. We are the only animals who are naturally unfinished. We have to bring ourselves to fulfillment, to integration and to coherence.

— Lady Gaga and the Life of Passion (David Brooks for The New York Times)