Matthew Lehner

Me, to myself every Sunday night: “Tomorrow you will embark on another journey to the world of neurotypicals. Remember, you do not understand their culture and ways and they do not understand yours. You are a guest there, please do your best not to offend them by being culturally insensitive.”

*taps sign* if your writing is good and i want to share it, but it's on substack, i won't. substack intentionally uses your subscription fees to recruit and fund fascists. they pay them huge signing bonuses before they've earned a dollar. they don't just platform them, they create their platforms

Typed this earnestly and quickly. I will miss ~hearing from~ these creators. There’s been so much perceived collective loss over the last few months and it feels like things are picking up speed. Most days I’m doing my best to ignore it and focus on hope and joy within my immediate community.

Me too. So much. I ignored the fact that it would happen until now. Now I realize that I will miss heating for so many autistic creators. These parasocial relationships have bright me so much comfort and community in the last 3-4 years.

Nice day for a walk

Mr. Rogers or Kurt Vonnegut depending on the day

Did my First spin class today. My review: sweaty and boring. The worst parts of riding a bike and also you’re in a nightclub at 6am with someone yelling at you.

I guess I'm doing this tonight…

TIL

@uibreakfast.com hi!!👋🏻 nice to see you here!!

Flava Flav just called Paul the next Elon Musk. I hope he’s wrong, but also very much love the sentiment!

Nice view on the bike home this afternoon. ☺️

With this coupon, this post has gotten more likes than anything else I’ve said on here.

Maybe it’ll work this time guys!!!!!!! At least we can have good vibes for a little while. Kinda feels like the plot to Jurassic World though…

I’m stoked to see more #ElixirLang community showing up on here! Welcome!

Just finished reading String Female Character by Fern Brady. It is so good. It’s a first hand account of undiagnosed and untreated autism. Her takes on being neurodivergent are so gracious and understanding of context, but don’t pull any punches.

Just got my seasonal flu and covid vaccines. I hope I don’t get autism again. 🤭 (I’m autistic)

Today’s episode showed how tricycles were manufactured. Fred had such a knack for finding wonder in everything. “Oh isn’t that marvellous,” he’d say as Mr. McFeeley described some random step in the process. And it was marvellous! He was right!

Is there any app or open source project that can take a bunch of calendar feeds to merge them all to create one single feed that I can put into my work calendar for availability reasons?

Watching Mr. Rogers with my kids is one of my very favourite things about being a dad.

It’s amazing what opening up a brand new codebase and trying to contribute will do for your imposter syndrome!

Pretending nothing is going on and I don’t have anxiety about what is happening today. I’m think I can keep scrolling this way

I get to take this helicopter to work for my first day at my new job!

I’m in a slack where someone is on a quest to find the mintiest mint and I think that’s just the most beautiful and pure thing.

People with ADHD experience life with greater intensity – this means we have more to manage, and less to manage it with.

The bike commute this morning

Proof that god exists and everything is going to be okay. news.bk.com/blog-posts/f...

I have some time off from work and one thing I’d like to do is find boredom. Is this what a dopamine cleanse is?

10M users, but we’re all lurking.

My meal prep service is offering "Seared Gratitude Salmon & Horseradish Sauce" – for dessert, a side of namaste?

Good view?

Got laid off from my VC backed hyper growth job along with almost half the company last week. I feel for all of us whose lives have been disrupted. It was a really, really good crew. But, I’m fine. Not really upset or even surprised now that I’ve had a few days to reflect.

TFW you get enough executive function to do a task that you've been unable to initiate for a month and this happens…

34 years ago today, 14 women, most of whom were studying engineering, were killed by an anti-feminist gun man at École Polytechnique in Montreal. I was a young graduate student studying physics at the time and I will never forget. #MontrealMassacre #NeverForget #WomenInSTEM 🧪🌹

I would like for there to be many, many more TV shows created by Josh Thomas. Please Like Me and Everything's Gonna be Okay are both perfection.

I think I’m not burned out anymore. It’s weird to not feel scared of disaster all the time. Life is so much better this way!

I’m wondering if there’s a tie Effective Altruism and the growth of impact funds. FWIW, the company I cofounded was largely funded by an impact fund. What’s talked about in this article feels very familiar. “How do we measure your impact?” was a big question. Feels very aligned with EA.

People are more afraid of autism than rabies. Cool. Cool cool cool.

!jazbot whereami

Yesterday I got a booster, tweaked my back at the gym, and slept poorly last night because of those things and my small children. Got all the inflammations today.

Hey I just met you I'm off to hunt whale but here's my novel so call me Ishmael

Minimal piano arrangements + spatial audio is just perfection.