This is a sweet read for anyone who might feel like they can't find their place:
"We need a whole lot more than just Breakup Whisperers. We need D&D Group Conveners, Last-Minute Babysitters, People Who Write Articles Online Explaining The Confusing Endings of Certain Movies, A Cappella Concert Attendees, Wikipedia Editors, Phone Fixers, Local Historians, Post-Tragedy Casserole Providers ... and on and on, forever. Roll a few of those together, and baby, that’s a niche."
https://open.substack.com/pub/experimentalhistory/p/theres-a-place-for-everyone
🧐 Also, feel free to tag your own niche!
I am a...
#SitterWithStreetFolk
#HelperWithWords
#IncluderOfOutsiders
#AuntieAtLarge
#BearerOfSometimesUsefulFacts
#MakerOfTreatsAndGoodEats
#GeneralTryHard
Y tú? 👀
@MLClark #TechnoJanitor
#ITDoctor
#ComputerReviver
#CatWhisperer
#LanternFlyExtermitaror
#PuertoRicanFoodChef
…..
“The globalization of attention is a damn shame for many reasons, and the biggest is that it leaves lots of local niches neglected.”
Great line, eh?
And what a great list:
A computer necromancer!
A master of the pss pss pss!
Dude who takes out the digital trash!
Thank you for your glorious service. 🔥
@MLClark also: “being accosted by a lunatic on the street is perhaps the most American welcome that anyone can get.” And yes that has been me a few times since I’m “a New Yorker” and here we don’t have any “sense of shame”….