I think fulfillment is an entirely other topic from stress and burnout. You can be fulfilled and burned out or bored. This move wasn’t about fulfillment as much as having fewer things to do. Love Jon’s take on knowing when to pause someting. I often get bored and
I've changed my Bluesky avatar to MLK's image to celebrate his birthday on Monday, January 20. I dream of everyone wearing this button proudly on Monday in support of American democracy and progress. We are a proud country, beneath all the weirdness. What a great idea.
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The internet didn't make us all marketers. It revealed that we always were. Every interaction is a transaction. Every piece of content a sales pitch. Every platform a marketplace. The winners aren't those who reject this reality. They're the ones who embrace it and
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I was perfectly happy with this lens... until I made the mistake of watching an old review of it. Take gear reviews with a big grain of salt. There’s nothing wrong with researching and understanding what is that you are getting for your money, especially when you are trying
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As the United States come to a will-they-won’t-they moment of deciding whether to ban TikTok, I’ve had a moment to reflect on my own social media usage. I quit social media about a week after the last presidential election. It was too much. I needed
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You don’t just run out of creativity at one point. It’s not like you had a specific amount at the start of your life and each creative act depletes the reservoir. Instead creativity comes from a rested mind, a frantic mind, a nervous mind, an angry mind. There’
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Creativity comes from constraints and freedom tied together. Pressure is ok, good in fact. It’s a wonderful thing to know that you have boundaries around your work, something holding it all together, forcing you forward. I think of the anology of swimming through a hard current and struggling against
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I’ve had the privilege of working alongside several fantastic UX Researchers over the last decade. Anytime I had a project where I could get help from one I gladly took the opportunity to learn everything I could. My understanding at this point is still basic; there’s so much
And the thing that we were really surprised to find was that really they turned into almost different beings. I mean, exercise was that potent. Every single tissue we looked at should something completely different from before. It really changed the entire molecular makeup of the individual organs of the
I’m never short of ideas for writing these days. I’ve kept a habit for years of capturing any ideas for articles into Apple Notes. When I sit down to write for the day I usually have an idea of what I want to say, but if I feel
Sometimes, an unwanted email isn’t actually “spam”, it’s just an email that you’d have rather not gotten. My general thesis is that if you keep up with this fight over time, eventually your inbox is generally pretty clean, and the fight doesn’t seem so overwhelming to
There’s a Great Clips right next to the highway I needed to get on to go to the event, and one of the services they offer is a shampooing. I could just go to Great Clips, get my hair washed, hop on the highway and go straight to the