the old girls club digest

August 15, 2025

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mallory contois
August 15, 2025 • est. reading time:9 minutes

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A good read: ‘Flounder Mode: Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work ’ by Brie Wolfson

I asked him the difference between “following your interests” and being scatterbrained or having shiny object syndrome, like I sometimes worry I do. “The people who become legendary in their interests never feel they have arrived,” he said. When he talked about the power of passion and obsession in that process, I asked him if passion is enough. “Enough for what?” he asked, somewhat rhetorically. He had an impression of what I meant. “I think one of the least interesting reasons to be interested in something is money,” he said, and cited Walt Disney. “We don’t make movies to make money. We make money to make more movies.”

Money isn’t actually what I meant, but I appreciated that he took the conversation there. I let the silence hang for a minute before he continued. “What I’m talking about is taking your interests seriously enough to have the courage to stay moving. You can give stuff away. You can abandon things. You can tolerate failure because you know that tomorrow there is more.”

I asked Kelly about the tradeoffs of focusing on a single thing if you want to be great (which is what I had been getting at before). “Greatness is overrated,” he said, and I perked up. “It’s a form of extremism, and it comes with extreme vices that I have no interest in. Steve Jobs was a jerk. Bob Dylan is a jerk.”

The way Kelly approaches work differently was starting to come into focus.


[read the full interview and essay here]

A newsletter, podcast or series rec: If Books Could Kill by Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri

If Books Could Kill, hosted by Michael Hobbes (journalist) and Peter Shamshiri (lawyer), delivers sharp, comedic critiques of popular nonfiction—especially the so-called “airport bestsellers”—by dissecting their flawed arguments, misuse of data, sweeping generalizations, and cultural impact. Each episode delves into one book’s claims and influence, exposing where its ideas fall apart while offering context on why such seductive simplifications gained traction.

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