Friday Links – Better Living Through Literature

1. Doc named the stray we’re feeding Oliver because “he asks for more” by gradually creeping closer and closer to the house. So I guess we have an outside cat now?

2. This is an article about answering emails but also smashing the patriarchy, and I am here for it (emphasis mine):

Patriarchy (and institutional bigotry) conditions us to operate as if we are constantly working at a deficit. In some ways, this is true. You have to work twice as hard to get half the credit. I have spent most of my life trying to be perfect… I wanted to be good, as if by being good I might prove that I deserved more than the ephemeral esteem of sexist asshats.

Listen to me: Being good is a terrible handicap to making good work. Stop it right now. Just pick a few secondary categories, like good friend, or good at karaoke.

3. I’m going to start using “sexist asshats” a lot more in conversation.