Becoming Everyone, Everywhere
Magician Space•Sep 26, 2025 — Dec 06, 2025
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Soon after I moved to New York, I installed this Chrome extension, Just Not Sorry. As its name suggests, this software flags speculative phrases like just, sorry, and I am afraid, reminding the writer to speak in a firm voice. Only later did I understand, to move through the world without being diminished, one must remain unapologetic and affirmative. Perhaps this is the missing piece in my sense of professionalism. So I keep asking, have I truly grown up? Why does my confidence waver like a frightened girl’s? A friend called it regression [1]. Yet he added: It is not yours alone, but the shared experience of an entire generation. And not only in China, but across the world, we zillennials are all held in the same uneasy suspension.
From early childhood into adolescence, I was always apologetic—an adjective more decent than timid or craven. I navigated the adult world as vulnerable...More
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Becoming Everyone, Everywhere
Magician Space•Sep 26, 2025 — Dec 06, 2025
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Soon after I moved to New York, I installed this Chrome extension, Just Not Sorry. As its name suggests, this software flags speculative phrases like just, sorry, and I am afraid, reminding the writer to speak in a firm voice. Only later did I understand, to move through the world without being diminished, one must remain unapologetic and affirmative. Perhaps this is the missing piece in my sense of professionalism. So I keep asking, have I truly grown up? Why does my confidence waver like a frightened girl’s? A friend called it regression [1]. Yet he added: It is not yours alone, but the shared experience of an entire generation. And not only in China, but across the world, we zillennials are all held in the same uneasy suspension.
From early childhood into adolescence, I was always apologetic—an adjective more decent than timid or craven. I navigated the adult world as vulnerable...More
