Aug 08 15:44 coming to realize one my biggest areas of growth in the past ~year had been learning to accept ideas from people who i find annoying or disagreeable. i find the tones of jane jacobs and david sarris difficult and at times irking, but i have still been able to take their ideas and use them to complicate my own. i’m pretty proud of this. i think it’s part of a larger pattern of more readily seeking out and embracing things that go against my own beliefs about the world.