What a cracking read! The way you took me from laughing about first-grade academic fraud to questioning the nature of truth was bloody brilliant. I especially loved how naturally you brought us there without announcing where we were going. Your humor and self-reflection work so well together. And the gas station confession absolutely sent me
thank you!! what a thoughtful review!! also love phrase “cracking read” going to try and somehow work it into a conversation today 😂 i release every thursday :) always starts with a personal story then a field guide.
The transition from ripping out first grade homework pages to analyzing Elizabeth Holmes and Hilaria Baldwin is the exact kind of intellectual wild ride I’m here for. The gas station pole story at the end had me laughing out loud. Thank you for making procrastination look so effortlessly artful!
Nikki, this made me laugh, then quietly question every “technically true” thing I’ve ever said. 😂
The line that really got me was, **“perhaps I’ve simply gotten better at negotiating the conditions of my honesty.”** That feels like the point where the piece stops being about lying and becomes about how incredibly talented we are at building little moral exceptions for ourselves.
And I loved the distinction you keep circling between honesty and truth. We can tell something exactly as we experienced it and still leave out the part that completely changes how someone else would understand what happened.
Which makes the documentary section work so well too — because even the person trying to reveal the truth is still choosing what we get to see.
Also, “StockHolmes syndrome” was terrible.
I mean that as the highest compliment. 😂
Did you start this wanting to write about Elizabeth Holmes and the documentary, or did the first-grade homework story come first and lead you into the larger question of how we all edit the truth?
I told a lie this weekend to get out of plans. Little Nikki is so cute
hahaha love you
What a cracking read! The way you took me from laughing about first-grade academic fraud to questioning the nature of truth was bloody brilliant. I especially loved how naturally you brought us there without announcing where we were going. Your humor and self-reflection work so well together. And the gas station confession absolutely sent me
thank you!! what a thoughtful review!! also love phrase “cracking read” going to try and somehow work it into a conversation today 😂 i release every thursday :) always starts with a personal story then a field guide.
The transition from ripping out first grade homework pages to analyzing Elizabeth Holmes and Hilaria Baldwin is the exact kind of intellectual wild ride I’m here for. The gas station pole story at the end had me laughing out loud. Thank you for making procrastination look so effortlessly artful!
So accurate
Nikki, this made me laugh, then quietly question every “technically true” thing I’ve ever said. 😂
The line that really got me was, **“perhaps I’ve simply gotten better at negotiating the conditions of my honesty.”** That feels like the point where the piece stops being about lying and becomes about how incredibly talented we are at building little moral exceptions for ourselves.
And I loved the distinction you keep circling between honesty and truth. We can tell something exactly as we experienced it and still leave out the part that completely changes how someone else would understand what happened.
Which makes the documentary section work so well too — because even the person trying to reveal the truth is still choosing what we get to see.
Also, “StockHolmes syndrome” was terrible.
I mean that as the highest compliment. 😂
Did you start this wanting to write about Elizabeth Holmes and the documentary, or did the first-grade homework story come first and lead you into the larger question of how we all edit the truth?
this one hit extra hard after watching you can see everything