Actionable knowledge from my journey to join a Goenka meditation workshop

I recently joined a 10 day meditation workshop after procrastinating for years, despite “knowing” of meditation’s benefits. Every one’s path to meditation is different. This article is my [meanering] story to deepen my practice and how I came to join a workshop.

I am sharing my story so that others can potentially enjoy the same benefit of mindfulness by practicing meditation. I had wanted to join for roughly 8 years before successfully signing up for a workshop. From the short time I have practiced post-workshop, I have noticed differences in myself.

I have seen a change in my relationship with…

Haley and I have been using Slack as a primary way to communicate in the past 6 months, and its been an authenticity-and-delight creating relationship hack.

Problem: Getting in sync was hard.

Before Slack, my girlfriend and I used a combination of iMessage / SMS and email. We found we didn’t know where some detail was kept and did not have a good way to search on multiple platforms. While we both had WhatsApp, WeChat, Instagram, and Facebook messengers, they were somewhat overloaded with other messages.

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We are two New Yorkers with different work / social groups. These groups…

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I build stuff as part of my everyday life. I jot some of what I build in workflows, scripts, research notebooks, evernote, simplenote, sketch notebooks, note cards. Some of these things become permanent parts of what I do, some of it gets shared among friends, and most of it never gets shown to the world.

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