Below Belief

From Paul Ford at Ftrain.com, I felt just like this yesterday.

I carried much of [my] junk with me to New York, finally coming to rest in Brooklyn. For the last 5 years I’ve struggled with my apartment, as I described. It amazes me, when I walk into the place after a client meeting, wearing an ironed shirt and tie, having presented myself successfully in a PowerPoint presentation, to find my trash can overflowing, crusted dishes resident in the sink, and everywhere books and clothes, with nothing hung on the walls, and a slowly deepening surface of books on all exposed surfaces. The paradox of my exterior self and interior space made me feel that I was presenting a total lie to the rest of the world. The young, capable fellow who was describing the merits of good branding and smart data sharing to corporate souls was a complete fraud who could not keep his bed made.

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