In the aftermath of my decision to quit grad school, I've been doing a lot of thinking, and seeking out advice. I called Julie from Escape the Ivory Tower, and we talked about whether it was possible to write a thesis alone, and my fear that if I switched schools I would just fail again, because ...
I received something in the mail last week, and it made me really happy. It was a copy of What Would Google Do? (Amazon) and a hilarious card from the wonderful Ian at the Code Factory. It really made me think about how I changed as a person during the two years I spent in Ottawa. ...
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 ...
I had the best time in Extreme Blue. I learned so much. I met such cool people. It was awesome. The summer though, was a terrible time to take off from my thesis. So close to the end. So clear on what I was doing. So motivated to ESCAPE and move on to the real world... And ...
They call Extreme Blue a leadership development program. I didn't get it at first, but by the end I did. I also started to see why I had been picked out as someone "showing leadership" - though I have so far to go there. It's around that time of year when I re-read 7 Habits (Amazon) ...
I heard a horrible story the other day - someone had been off work because they were seriously ill, and a week before they returned to work one of their colleagues called all her clients and said she was never coming back. Shocking, right? Bitchy! Horrifying. Disgusting behavior. Hurtful. The last thing you need. If my ...
The other week I had a phone interview for what I thought was my dream job. In the days before, I realized that was the kind of thing I'd been doing. And then, I waited. Meanwhile, work was going so-so. My computer broke - again - so I lost a day and a half on my ...
Post-breakup, I took stock of what I was doing and decided I needed a break. I spent days in my pajamas and stopped running about. One of the things I gave myself, was the 5 season Ally McBeal: The Complete Series boxset. I set myself a rule that between each episode I had to do something ...
Recently, I read something that said (I'm paraphrasing): The surest way to mediocrity is trying to be liked by everyone. Shortly after, I met the conspiracy theorist Mike Levin, of Unfolding Magazine to talk about Awesome Ottawa, you can read the article here. I didn't really like the article, but I'm trying to embrace the idea that criticism ...
After some time without Facebook, I've become quite happy without it. However, it's my birthday next week and I'm headed to Seattle for the weekend and later on next week, we're planning a party for the Awesome Foundation (which is GO - we have 10 trustees and a project, I'm so excited - expect more ...
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