Not Everything Fits in a Caption.

Somewhere along the way, we let the phrase “you can do anything” turn into a mandate instead of a possibility. It sounded empowering at first. It still does. Especially online. Especially when you’re watching people your age hit milestones, go viral, quit jobs, launch brands, move cities, and call it alignment. But the older I get — and the more rooms I’ve been in — the more I realize how many of us mistook access for assignment.