You didn’t always feel…
When I first started Sumo, my main goal was to solve my own need: finding great products and…
In a product team, every role is important to ensure we are designing the products we love as well…
About a year ago, we launched our community forum. Today, thousands of campers use it each day…
Italy hadn’t been what I’d expected.
If you’re anything like me, you spend a lot of time online. You probably have go-to…
Take a step back and think about a time you had a job or a job you have right now. Have…
On looking back, struggling through a difficult time and discovering how to move forward.
I love a good motivational book. My shelves are stuffed with things like “Delivering Happiness” by Tony Hsieh or “How Starbucks Saved…
Growing up a little boy in San Diego was magical. It was really only magical because of my grandpa Murray. He would take me and my…
When I was very young, I almost went home with a stranger.
As a kid, I didn’t poo much. Honestly, I would go once every 3 or 4 days. Yeah I know, pretty unhealthy. But I…
I had a shower thought at the end of 2016: I should just pass on recruitment events and speaking opportunities to other team members. It began as a small thought. But by the time I…
1. Bali is located a hopelessly short eight degrees from the equator. For fair skinned Westerners like…
Intimacy.
I am not referring to the physical in-the-bedroom type of intimacy, even though that is great, but the…
Through my life I’ve come across this question multiple times most of all when people say things like “Ana the problem is you’re too nice”, but, what does being “too nice” even mean?
meritocracy, ghetto mythology, & slander of us Black poor
I’ve always been a natural leader. For many people, being a leader is the cuspid of merit. To be followed, to…
I think most moms would agree that at times, being a mother is a challenging and thankless endeavor. We’re their…
There is a book about Mumbai (Bombay) called “Maximum City” in which the author, Suketu Mehta, chronicles his return to the…
“Do you ever have random bouts of existential crisis” — me, all this week.
So you may or may not have read from my Facebook feed earlier or yesterday or however the heck time works on this planet that for whatever reason, it has been a rough couple of days.
It’s true. America is the land where anyone can dream and achieve the impossible. The…
A true story: In life, you would not always have a Happy ending, you may have to stay happy with what you have, because love cannot be grabbed, or snatched, but your happiness cannot…
Sometimes I question whether elevator rides really have to be so awkward. Most people (myself…
We rely too heavily upon the way we “feel” about something or someone.
Feelings change like the weather in Maryland, in the span of seven days you can experience all four seasons. Sunday and Monday will be…
I love a good metaphor. I’ve been thinking about passion, drive and motivation a lot lately. And in my experience it is all about fire.
Fire is alluring. It’s incredibly dangerous, but also life saving. It’s beautiful but also scary.
I’m twenty-five years old and getting my first tattoo. I have finals coming up in a few weeks. At the end of every law school class is a semester cumulative exam which is the only grade for the class. I had taken time off…
Met hen die mij t dierbaarst zijn zat ik vanavond aan tafel, mijn oudejaarsavond te vieren. Morgen ben ik jarig en één van de dierbaarsten is er voor de vijfde keer alleen in gedachten bij.
De eerste keer was zijn sterven en alles wat daarbij kwam kijken nog vers en probeerde…
Week 3 Back in London
I’m into 3 weeks back in London and I cannot lie, not everyday has been on an up…
The thing did work exactly how you said. I would argue it still does. Slavery never ended. Neither did segregation. The economy and the sale of the Dream are alive and well for those
Addiction Changes You, Recovery Makes You
No one chooses to become an addict. I didn’t. When I discovered that I suffer with addiction, I was finally able…
our kid is 2. she loves baking, grocery shopping, impromptu dance parties and playing with her vagina.
I wish I were kidding.
so, it started out that in the bath she did some basic exploring. once she poked it and asked “hey mommy —…
Yes, you read it right. Nudity is how you can free yourself. Before you start throwing tantrum , let me tell you a story.
Last year was one of hardest of my life. It started with loss of a very favorite person. Few months later my best friend was…
“I don’t even really need a team. I could easily do every job in this department if I had more time.”
Faith is often misunderstood and under appreciated.
And by faith, I don’t necessarily mean religion.
Everything we do in this world requires a degree of faith.
Some things, like sitting on a chair, require little faith because all the past data shows it will most likely hold…
I have to deal with my stuff!
Celebrities! Events! Girl Scouts! Bagpipe Marching Bands!
The Memorial Day Parade is coming up and we are going to miss it. I hate missing it. The parade in…
Thandie Newton
“Life is like an elevator. On your way up, sometimes you have to stop and let some people off.” ― Ziad K…
I haven’t been. (And I’ll get to the “strong” part here in a moment.) Rosemary dies under…
You have to be able to accept failure to get better. —…
Wake up! Wash up! Get Dressed! Eat! Go to school! Graduate! Get a great job! Work for an excellent company! Go on vacation! Get…
Blog #6. Feeling Salty, or “Self Care”.
I have teenagers, so I have learnt the new expression of inner rage, “feeling salty”. And I am so salty right now I have a list. I call it the Salty List, and I wanted to put my husband on it today, but I was kidding. Just. I am now making jokes about expressing my inner rage every…
Too many skills with not enough challenges leads to boredom.
Too few skills with more than enough challenges leads to anxiety.
Growing the right amount of skills and seeking the right amount of challenges is ultimately what we desire. When…
Rebehair | A few years ago, there’re only a few choices available if we want to buy a lace wig. The…
If there is one quality I wouldn’t trade for anything in return, it is my sense of curiosity. Curiosity could lead to…
Simplifying our lives isn’t always easy. There is a lot of day-to-day stress, noise, and anxiety that can cause us to…
Is that they are mostly optional.
And not mandatory.
You don’t have to do them.
Ever…
I figured I’d let the dust settle on Mother’s Day for just a bit and then give my 2 cents.
Another Mother’s Day has come and gone. I’m not against flowers, cards and compliments when it comes to Mother’s Day. It’s just that I don’t think it’s enough. The…
I’m sitting in the car, on my way back to New York after a much needed mental break, looking for the best way to get back into the swing of things.
OK...so this trip wasn’t really about me. It was my sister’s college graduation this past weekend so technically that’s the…
“I know why the caged bird sings.” — Maya Angelou
the finest memory i have is of lying in bed with her smiling eyes
What crime did we commit for many being stone-cold? How do many live without telling…
It sounds wonderful doesn’t it? You, a person with aspirations, dreams of becoming…
Today begins a series of three very important questions that I’d like to encourage you to answer.
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I have always wondered what it is like for those ‘’fortunate’’ people who follow the perfect path to their destination from birth right through. You know the ones I mean? First step, be born attractive. Then do well in primary school. Hold all the best birthday parties…
I’m okay.
Sometimes listening is the most active form of engagement.
I’ve written a bit in the past about how becoming aware of Scarcity Mentality has changed the way…
Yesterday was an extremely eye opening day for me, for multiple reasons. First I received multiple offers for work, and…
On my first day in the radio industry I was a volunteer for a radio station in…
HAVE YOU TASTED?
He saved me. Wonder where I’d be! I’d probably be a wretch or a wreck or both. Yes! I finally know the difference between those two words and that they clearly describe what I’d not want to be at all. Oh am I glad I’m adopted into the victors’ family! Knowing the difference having God has brought in my life…
No Pain , No Gain
Here are hurdles, challenges and risks in life of every person and the brave and successful people take them as learning opportunity ,move forward and face the risks. As we know success is…
We all experience life through our own story, our version of the truth.
The art of story, or storytelling, has been used for centuries to pass down ideas, values and certain…
This is definitely the most descriptive and very informative post. I’m really glad I stumbled upon to this article. Thank you for the great explanations and wonderful resources you shared. :)
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I have also been recently laid off. Your tips are funny to read and well, true to the core. Regardless of what we do or the age group we belong to, it’s always hard!
Great examples to illustrate these concepts. We’ve had some fun with math in our article http://sourcetech411.com/2013/01/automorphic-numbers-and-other-fun-math-oddities/ if you’re interested. What are your thoughts on how best to describe Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle and Schrödinger equations? Thanks for the article!
This week is full of milestones for me. Last Sunday would have been my first Mother’s Day. This weekend would have been my…
Want to hack a bad habit? Use my N3 trick: Notice, Number, and stay Neutral. It’s a game. Give it…
Go Ahead, Shift Your Perspectives & Invite Possibility
Over here in my corner of the world, a handful of things have taken an unexpected, and expensive…
Things are a-changing.
More and more, things make sense. Less and less, I feel lost and alone.
Every day has become an exercise in gratitude, humility, decisions, diligence…
Irony.
“Hell is empty, and the devils are here.”
This morning I bought The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck audiobook and got through half of the first chapter. I know that…
When I was in the seventh grade, our teacher told us a story about his college philosophy final exam. One question was written on the page.
Why?
He told us he wrote, “Why not?”
I have come back to that statement time and time again over the years.
每個人都有自己的人生，每個人都可決定要如何過自己的人生。
人生就像一張空白的畫布，可以咨意地填上任何色彩！但重點在於你想畫出什麼？你想成為怎樣的人？
Perfection is the enemy of good. — Voltaire
Great read Todd. I love this statement! It is so true for so many, for so many reasons. The internet and it’s various leverage points (ie: IoT, web, scheduling, filtered news feeds etc) are turning many into “productivity machines” doing what the “internet” and its devices tell them to do and think. Are we soon to become its “tool” rather than it…
You have these, you are successful already!
“there will be pain, there will be doubt. there will be beauty, there will be the unknown. there will be so many moments of joy and delight that the whole universe will feel painted in hues of amber and wonder. there will be times you are so sad you can’t lift your head. and there will be times you…
There are a lot of good, practical reasons to make learning something new a part of your daily routine…
Today was the day,
Gran finally picked us up for our weekly walk in the park
A letter to the depressed
“Success is journey, not a destination”
The beautiful journey of Amal Started with a tremendous passion and it kept going fluently and came to the end with the same zeal and zest.
Once in a while I will re-post something from my first blog for various reasons. This post received the most reads of all of my posts on NamedforWonderWoman.blogspot.com. The reason I chose this to re-post today is because I have learned how crucial relatability is key to gaining traffic…
Sharing the 6 guidelines with your classmate
Wonder is a force that creates all of our success. It keeps cropping up in my conversations at work and at home, in different disguises. Sometimes it’s visible as a conversation about spiritual desire or as the intensity of a new business idea. There’s wonder powering the creative energy of the new group I’m part…
This is my home too you know.
Perhaps even moreso than yours, afterall- you’re not connected like I am. For you home is what you do to fill in the spaces between what you’re actually doing. You clean because of what others might think, not out of any compulsion for the…
“ When a Sleeping Woman Awakes, Mountains Move!”
the most loving words my grandmother said to me were
Change can be scary. We tend to be creatures of habit, set in our familiar ways. When those ways get disrupted, we often feel de-stabilized and disoriented. We feel most comfortable with things as they are, the way they have been. But rather than being solely scary, change can also point to new opportunities and…
Drake is the “Baer” of good news; that the pressure is off to always be on.
Lemmings we are not. But Lazy Humanity we sometimes are, which means that every…
I’m recognized among my friends for always being too busy for the majority of plans, and I don’t feel bad about it, at all. Multitasking people tend to always be in a ‘roller coaster’ and you need your agenda to be your bestfriend.
We all have experiences of in-door sessions with our fellows and It is something…
I am about to board for a flight to Southeast Asia. While I am thinking about the comfort…
If you had the chance…
I worked the usual closing shift on Mother’s Day. Usual being that I close on…
The internal battle we have to overcome every day is one that everyone knows. Fighting is a part of every day life and it can become tiresome. Whether it be fighting for a promotion at work, fighting for your loved ones to prevent self-destruction or fighting something more sinister like an illness or addiction is something everyone can relate to.
The prince kissed the princess and they lived happily ever…
When you want something MORE, when you want something DIFFERENT, when it’s time to take things in your life and your business to the NEXT LEVEL or when you are DESPERATE for a change because things aren’t working…
Personal Development is an ongoing process, there is always more to learn and adapt to…
Si Woo Kim is the youngest player ever to win the 2017 Player Championship at the age of 21. Simone Biles was 19 when she won gold medal after gold medal at the 2016 Olympic games. Malala Yousafzai was 16 when she was nominated for the Nobel Peace…
Lack of commitment can look a lot like lack of knowledge/confidence.
The former is toxic, the latter is temporary and normal.
I believe the same applies to interactions with the market/customers/partners. I wrote something about this here —
Of course the evidence exists. As I said, I’m not bothering because you dismiss everything. You’re about “winning.” I’m focused on reality and truth.
You keep dodging the key point about where you’re from. It matters. You don’t grasp how racism toward Black people has systematically manifested itself in this country. That’s…
Agony cocked his head to one side and squinted at me.
“You’re never getting out of here alive.”
I have seen the trend that goes on everywhere in the world and I must say it will…
I failed at the challenge of writing a blog post every day. Not sure how other people in the group are faring. But in the realization of failure, I found a new idea to blog about. No I didn’t lack ideas, just time and energy to do it. Literally. After the 12-hour work day. Getting…
There’s a difference between striving for excellence and seeking perfection. Excellence is about living from the highest part of your Self — the part that is the most like God. It’s about living from your highest thought, your highest action…
One of my biggest regrets on my death bed will be: not helping as many people as I could have…
The other will be: not having enough sexual escapades. I’m sure.
We’ll see soon enough. Death is always lurking around the corner.
“I don’t know what I’d do without you here.”
Walking the line
I am currently reading a book, I cannot remember the name of it at the moment, about being a good neighbor. The author…
I’m sorry that I lied.
I’m sorry that I lied about being open to you and letting my walls down. I’m…
My feed here at Medium tends to be flooded with articles from writers from all over the world telling me how to be awesome like that millionaire in the coffee shop or that billionaire I camped with the other night who was super insightful but also somehow…
Thank you for your post. Well stated. Poignant. Beautiful. You have a beautiful family. ❤️
Before you speak, THINK…
T — is it True?H — is it Helpful?I — is it Inspiring?N — is it…
Thank you for your post. The I was helping a designer friend of mine out just recently. He had not been designing for years. He needed a logo he designed cleaned up.
Even though I have started my research company last year, I do keep my skills up in design. Sometimes it is a simple newsletter for my library group. The thing…
That’s a useful mantra, John Paz and Augustine Paz. It’s really interesting because I was introduced to a similar mantra last Summer as I started going deeper into my meditation practice. It honestly is a very freeing concept, I get it and I’ve shared it with family and friends, too. (I also suggest a mantra which envisions one thriving to their…
To be in awe is to respect
Our apartment + Wayland just literally ugly cried the entire time at Cornerstone Bar going around saying one thing we were grateful for/appreciated about one another.
In just a span of two years, my apartment unexpectedly became my family and source of emotional support. We lived…
I'm not really sure of where I am anymore... I feel like my heart is still beating because my body keeps it like that. I can feel his love for me and I can feel my love for him, but it seems so quiet and tired. It feels like my whole body has given up on me. Like my brain stopped making synapses. Like…
In pursue of what you want there will always be things thrown at you to hinder your attention.
The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions
Saturday 25th March
I am on my way to collect my daughter. She has decided to go to Thorpe Park with some friends and one of the dads and I agreed on one of us taking them there and the other one bringing them back.
Leighton Bennett
I am Me in a sea of Us,
Defined by many years of nurturing by Them,
Estrictamente hablando un porcentaje muy pequeño de todos los vinos que se producen cada año en el mundo lo necesitan.
Por lo tanto más es el tiempo que pasará como un hermoso objeto de cristal que su tiempo efectivo de…
https://www.slideshare.net/CoolGus/murder-mayhem-desperation-and-cannibalism-the-donner-party-story
How To Create Prosperity For You, Family And Wider Community (Video)
Three months earlier, I joined Amal Academy’s fellowship program (an education startup funded by Stanford university). It was a new experience for me as, I never had an…
The mind does reasoning to itself in whichever environment it’s working in. It struggles a lot to reason, once it accepts it’s out of its…
I’m truly sorry you have to put up with this crap. You are handling it well with your “engaging the enemy policy”.
I am curious about why the men you are sometimes with don’t ask the drunk to desist. The drunk guy at the bus stop would’ve gotten a polite request to chill out. Then a warning. Then if he decided he wanted to…
