July 2010
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have a come-to-jesus talk with yourself
I’ve written a lot of posts about self-awareness lately. Every blog with advice on blogging says you have to have a focus when blogging. I’m going to be honest with myself – when I started blogging, I thought I would be writing about design, user interaction, and the developing world. And I’ve done that only halfheartedly. But the reason I write is to create conversations with people. And the...
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work hard at the things that matter - sometimes,...
I can’t think of a single Peter Bregman blog post that I don’t like. In fact, on my Google Reader feed, all of his recent posts are starred and marked as unread, because I want to write about all of them. But writing all my blog posts about his blog posts would be cheating. So here are my own thoughts on working too hard:
(headshot… only here so Shan won’t complain about no...
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i'm watching lightning from my window seat
Flying from ATL to ELP this evening, and got a glimpse of lightning forming out my window. By the time I started taking pictures, the real bolts were hidden behind clouds, but here’s some shots courtesy of my lowly (lovely?) iPhone 3GS and a GoGo inflight connection:
(all photos are personal… feel free to use these though)
Art & science. The stuff that dreams are made...
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more dreams than memories
walking it out en route to the Taj Mahal (personal photo… please do not reproduce without permission)
This one’s for Ryan - A few summers ago, I took a long vacation. For many years before that, and ever since then, I haven’t had such an opportunity. It wasn’t a trip for the faint of heart – I spent two months trekking through India and Malaysia with both parents in tow. The trip...
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the fallacy of the empty vessel
(photo courtesy of… )
“In the Yucatan peninsula, it is the local collectivity of Mayan women who hold authoritative knowledge about birth; that is to say, the knowledge that is considered consequential for making decisions about and managing the event. Childbirth takes place either in the woman’s own house or that of her mother and technologies are familiar household objects. There are...
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why "work/life balance" is a misguided concept
“Never let the things that you do, overtake the things that you are.”
The statement rang in my ears as a reality check, sitting on stage in the Coliseum, waiting to give a keynote address to 3,000 people on the day before they began one of the most insightful journeys they would ever undertake. Words meant as advice for those who were just starting their college experience, not for someone who...
