Tiny Wants
Preferences that do not need permission, evaluation, or assessment
A small follow-up for paid subscribers to Tuesday’s piece, How I Lost the Signal. (Here’s another related piece, Why You Still Can’t Trust Your Signals.)
That essay was about the moment that a simple want gets smothered in cross-examination. That tiny pause where you know what you want, the immediately begin evaluating whether or not you’re allowed to want it. The shoulds.
So I made a little resource to go with it: Tiny Wants
It’s just a list of simple preferences you’re allowed to have without building a case for them first.
Things like:
wanting to go home
wanting softer clothes
wanting to stop optimizing the decision
wanting the thing you wanted first
It’s less advice and more about noticing how often ordinary preference gets interrupted before it fully forms.
