I’m a tinkerer. It’s my superpower. I get obsessed with puzzles and technical problems and I tinker until the pieces connect. I am always on the lookout for threads, connections, common themes — everywhere, with everything. I think in networks. Which is why I love Roam’s graph database. I’ve been using it for a couple […]
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Burnout and a Mad, Mad Barbie
The book Burnout, by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski, was a timely read for me a couple months ago. It explores stress in a modern woman’s life and healthy ways to deal with it. (It also explores how patriarchy has been one long gaslighting — but that’s a rant for another time.) The thing is, stress isn’t […]
Balance and Bystanders
Lately I’ve been thinking — a lot — about how the world works. What I keep coming back to is this idea of balance. Not in the “even / level” sense of balance — but in the “ebb and flow / to and fro / rise and fall” sense. In the sense of fluctuating between […]
Last Words
I yelled at my daughter in the school drop-off lane this morning. I’m not proud of that. School drop-off and pick-up are particular forms of torture for parents and children alike. With additional rules and processes in place to prevent the spread of COVID, it’s not just torture — it can be hell. I pulled […]
Deprogramming
This morning I went for an easy hike at Bear Creek Park before I headed to the office. I was doing this once a week with a friend for months, but it’s been about 6 weeks now since we’ve been able to get out there. Between holidays, bad weather, and the total chaos of two […]
The P Word: A Rant
This week is trying to eat me alive. I feel like I’ve been putting out fires for clients and scrambling to get my team members what they need to do their jobs since I got out of bed Monday morning — but I didn’t really get out of bed, because I had a bug Sunday night through […]
