I've been posting a few articles on Twitter about Minimalism lately. It was apt as I was trying to declutter in preparation for moving. Mostly, though, I post articles about how Minimalism is not necessarily The Way. The concept frustrates me - when I read about people with less than 100 items, I just think about how that ...
I love Penelope Trunk's blog. She's not afraid to write about her life. And sometimes that's positive, but the most interesting and hilarious and insightful posts are always about a negative - some way in which she screwed up, something she found difficult, relationships - that ended. The tagline is "advice at the intersection of work ...
The other day, I had a phone interview for quite possibly my dream job. With the encouragement of my mentors and friends I was feeling good about it, and going for it, until a few hours before when I was practically vibrating with fear. I don't know how it went. I definitely didn't connect with the ...
If you know me at all (or have just been reading my blog for a while) you'll know I'm really interested in how to be more productive, more effective, and generally achieving more. And of course I read Zen Habits and all these other blogs that talk about flow. Flow is about being completely absorbed in ...
I'm terrible at this. It's my biggest weakness, but also - the source of so many experiences and opportunities. So I can't embrace saying no fully for fear of missing out. But certain things lately have made me think that I need to say no more. Like, crossing campus on a hectic day when I have ...
There's an exercise in 7 Habits where you have to list your different "roles" and things you need to do for each of them. Here are mine (in no particular order): Grad student Teaching Assistant Ski instructor President of WISE Job seeker Girlfriend Daughter Friend Skier Kickboxer Workshop creator Programmer Nice (i.e. helping other people) Blogger Information diffuser Member of tech community And I look at this list, and think, no wonder ...
I read this great article on Study Hacks recently, it's called Beyond Passion: The Science of Loving What You Do and is part of a series he's doing. In one, he was looking for people who love what they do and I marked it to come back to because that's me - I love what ...
I've been thinking a lot lately about having dreams, in the context of graduating and finding a job. What is my dream job? What is the difference between a good job and a great job? What's the chance that I'll fail? Is that saying true, you know, the one that says "aim for the moon, even if ...
My life has been out of balance for as long as I can clearly remember. And I know, the most successful women embrace that imbalance but my feeling is that mine has been too far out of balance, or perhaps just too imbalanced in the wrong way. Last semester, I was in so much pain from ...
Although I've given a lot of free ski lessons since I qualified, to people displaying various degrees of talent and attention to instruction... yesterday was the first time people paid for my advice. I'm still kind of shocked that it's worth anything, given that I couldn't ski until I was 21. But, now I have my level ...
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