Jasmine Sun [01:45:01]: I already knew that it was important to write and I wrote casually before, but I have still been surprised how small the world is, how often you can be the first person or the best person on a particular topic without much effort. […] There just literally aren’t that many good posts in the world, despite all the number of posts in the world.

Kelsey Piper [01:45:34]: This has been one of the biggest repeat realizations of my adult life, that most things won’t get done unless you do them. It’s not fair. The world is just much less zero-sum than I imagined, and you’re much less replaceable. This is really empowering in a lot of ways, but it’s also kind of frustrating sometimes. It’s like, “Oh, it would be nice if somebody else was on this, then I wouldn’t have to be.”

— Jasmine Sun & Kelsey Piper, how dems lost the future, jasmi.news, 2025 (via)