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My son is five years old. I’m busy. Life gets in the way. Work is always there, another conference call, another task, just one more email. It never stops. It’s easy to keep going, to tell yourself that an extra couple of hours in the evening will make
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Is there something you care deeply about? Do you regularly find yourself frustrated with how things work? Are you constantly thinking about ways to make something better? Your voice should be shared. Even if you don’t feel that you’re the most qualified (hint: you rarely feel qualified), the
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There’s a passage in the Bible where Paul, one of the early church leaders, talks about a problem in a community (1 Corinthians 3). Apollos and Paul, two preachers who loved to share with others, were both teaching and preaching in the same general area. As a result some
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March 2019 update: I've just purchased the 15L (got a 15" laptop and the 10L featured here doesn't fit it). I'll be posting a followup in the coming months based on a new trip to share on my experience. Eureka! The perfect backpack
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Evernote, Apple Notes, Simplenote, TextEdit, Notepad++, Field Notes, Google Docs, Confluence. Over the last decade I've tried out a lot of options for capturing notes. My perfect notes doc would: * Be universal - It's always with me, or easily accessible. This doesn't necessarily preclude an
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Earlier today I attended a talk by Adam Morgan, a senior Creative Director at Adobe. He shared why creativity and design matter, and why they deserve a seat at the table alongside logic and data. The question that started the talk was, “do creative ideas work better?”. To find out
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This weekend I spent a few days by myself in the middle of nowhere. Thank you my lovely wife for handling the kiddos by herself! I’ll likely share some more thoughts soon, but the short takeaway is it’s important to take time to think; to stop and take
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So I'm struggling with something. I love to help people out and love to tinker and try new things. This means I take on more than I can handle and then end up working backwards to try and prioritize. Last night I started reading two books about this
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Last year I started running 1 mile each day. Running is my favorite exercise. I can get enjoy exercise, enjoy nature, and listen to an audiobook. However, in the past I've only run if there's an event to train for. In April, 2017 we had our
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Abridged summary from the publisher: Radical Candor is simple, you have to Care Personally at the same time that you Challenge Directly. When you challenge without caring, it's obnoxious aggression; when you care without challenging, it's ruinous empathy. When you do neither, it's manipulative
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Just finished listening to this book on Audible (pro tip: Listen at 150% speed). Below are some bullets that really stood out to me. * Business plan - Google initially created a business plan that didn’t actually tie the engineers to anything. In hindsight this worked quite well in allowing them