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Yvonne Lam
@yvonnezlam.bsky.social
I play with books, cats, food, yarn, and dirt, not all at the same time. Software engineer. Society of People Interested in Boring Things. She/her, cis.
I'm in!
December 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The alternative is for them to accept that luck is a huge part of success, and no one wants that in a world where we want everything to be about our own individual agency/capacity/skill/whatever.
December 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
It didn't come up very often, which is why the confusion lasted as long as it did.
December 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It's extremely confusing, when at any moment people don't know if we're special snowflakes or a fast follower or whatever. And it changes all the time, depending on narrative needs.
December 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I don't think of either of them enough to think of them by expertise first, which I think would lessen the confusion.
December 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
It has been over two decades, and I still refuse to go back to the so-called woman-friendly bike shop in Seattle that sold me a terribly fitted custom bike when I didn't know any better.
December 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I am here for it.
December 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
For the longest time I thought Tony Robbins and Tom Robbins were the same person, and I was so confused.
December 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM