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Tomorrow I'll be turning 31. Instead of writing about being 30 at the start of the year, I want to share my thoughts on the last day of it. I could speak directly to experiences in my life (I've had many wonderful ones!), things I'

Anxiety doesn't generally come from making decisions, but rather from the time spent deliberating on whether to make a decision. At a certain point there's enough information gathered, and a choice should be made. That choice isn't always Option A vs Option B, but

You can tell someone what you're thinking, and convey that in a way that you believe is correct. But that's only a very small part of what it means to communicate something. Communication happens through the words you choose to say, the words you leave unsaid,

Writing down an idea is a way to gather your thoughts and think through a problem. It's also a way to decompress after a long day. I've found over the years that I need to get out what I'm thinking in some form. Sometimes

You run into an interesting situation the moment you introduce more than one person into a project. Whereas at the start a project may have been from the mind of just one, now you have a few folks weighing in. At this point multiple opinions enter into a discussion, and

There are times when you're presented with two opposing views. Surely two sides of something can't both be correct at the same time, right? Life usually isn't black and white on everything. If you're trying to figure out the best way forward

Five projects are due next week. You're a blocker for two teams across four of those projects. You need to hire three new team members to handle all the work going on, but you have no time to find that hire. What do you do? You could work

On Friday I stepped away from work. Lots going on, but I had done what I could to get things in place for Monday. And with that, for the most part I was off until Monday morning. On Saturday our family spent some time in the afternoon hiking with friends

If you've ever try to build something, at some point you'll need to figure out what it should look like. As a result you'll probably turn to creating a wireframe or prototype. That's a good thing. Try to get it into a

There are times where we may feel that we have a bit too much going on. That might mean having a bunch of unactioned emails, unmarked todo list items, unread Slack messages (marked that way after taking a peak), or handful of text docs floating around. At these times it&