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muddle 2d ago

Norman Vincent Peale wrote "The power of positive thinking." Trump internalised all of that and look how that's going.

Albert Camus talked about the benefits of being a pessimist in a famous essay.

I think I'd rather be on Team Camus imagining myself as a happy Sisyphus.

#Camus #PositiveMentalAttitude #Philosophy #SelfDeception #FakeItTillYouMakeIt #Narcissism #MoralArguments #Manifesting

Peter Ries 🚲🌞Dec 6

My black "cat", Phineas.

#caturday #fakeittillyoumakeit

TheJestPress Jul 28, 2025

STEM Women Convinced They’re Fraudulent Geniuses, Study Mostly Agrees

#ImpostorSyndrome #WomenInSTEM #FakeItTillYouMakeIt #MarginalizedButBrilliant #SatireScience By: TheJestPress.com **Groundbreaking Study Reveals Women in STEM Are Basically Secret Agents Pretending to Be Themselves** A new study that will shock absolutely no one, except maybe your male lab partner who calls you "girl genius" unironically, has found that 97.5% of women in STEM graduate programs…

http://thejestpress.com/2025/07/28/stem-women-convinced-theyre-fraudulent-geniuses-study-mostly-agrees/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

STEM Women Convinced They’re Fraudulent Geniuses, Study Mostly Agrees

THEJESTPRESS.COM

N-gated Hacker News Jul 10, 2025

🚀🎭 Oh, look! Another CEO bites the dust after promising the moon and delivering a banana peel slip 🎢. Clearly, the "fake-it-till-you-make-it" strategy didn't quite make it past the "fake-it" stage 🤷‍♂️.
https://www.theverge.com/twitter/703606/x-ceo-linda-yaccarino-elon-musk-out-step-down-twitter #CEOfail #fakeittillyoumakeit #businessnews #techhumor #leadership #HackerNews #ngated

X’s CEO is out after failing at basically everything she claimed she wanted

Linda Yaccarino is stepping down as X’s CEO, and she’s leaving the platform once known as Twitter in a worse place than when she started.

The Verge

Lotty Jul 6, 2025

Don't be fooled by this picture. I feel absolutely dreadful today. Putting on makeup and a nice outfit helps, but only a bit. Recently I've been really struggling with my self image. Maybe because social media distorted my standards of how a woman my age is supposed to look or maybe because quite some people around me have been getting beauty treatments. Or maybe the heat is driving me insane. Who knows...

#ginger #yesIamfiahinhforcompliments #fakeittillyoumakeit #woman #beauty #summer #heat #makeup #fml #insecurities

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Miles Offit... 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦Jun 19, 2025

"2 weeks" was my first client's—a highly specialized contractor—favourite go-to move. Less pressure than a number measured in days, and if it takes a month, your're only off by 50%.

#FakeItTillYouMakeIt

#USPol #politics