If you’re not constantly getting honest, hard feedback on yourself, your growth will be slow. If you’re a manager, not knowing the truth means your team will suck. Most people claim they want feedback, but they don’t just go out and get it — or don’t know how…
A while ago, I wrote about tokenizing a math expression, with Javascript as the language…
What I learned and how you can do the same: Part 2
This post has nothing to with Drupal. And it’s really fucking embarrassing for me to write.
For the last three months I have been going to Body & Brain Yoga in Cambridge, MA. I did it because I wanted to start doing tai-chi and they were the…
We tend to put great emphasis on leadership skills and ways we can learn and build them…
It’s only been two years since I was 24.
A common theme in my life lately has been the fact that I’ve started saying “no” a lot more often.
“Cheer Up!”
“Smile! It’s not that bad!”
“Stop looking so glum”
On becoming a Middle Aged Suicide Man. I realize no one wants to hear this. There are plenty of positive, How…
Weekly musings from @profgalloway
I’ve been thinking a lot about success lately, its underpinnings, and if it can be taught. Talent is key, but that will only gain entrance to a crowded VIP room. Kind of like Platinum…
The more moving passages of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” are about the efforts of a father…
I just heard that the DNA strands of future ‘new-humans’ now numbers 13. That’s an 8.333 % increase, not a bad return-on-investment in today’s market. Evidently the 12-strand theory/prediction/obsession was not quite enough. Perhaps it’s because 13 is a sacred number. Or maybe…
Everyone needs to recharge and jet-setting has a big impact on your creative…
Recuerdo el día que compré mis pasajes. En mi indecisión y mis dudas existenciales, recurrí a mis hermanos (ambos muy prácticos, cualidad que yo no heredé). José Enrique tuvo una manera muy sutil de decirme que me vaya: «me aburres con tanta indecisión». Y, de hecho, yo también me estaba agotando…
Learning to be vulnerable is perhaps the most powerful gift my mother left to the grandkids she never knew…
I recently spoke to a room full of young designers at the Behance Portfolio Review (Bangalore, India). I was asked to share my experience, and hopefully inspire a few young people! My talk was conversational, peppered with my learnings, failures, observations…
An IQ test to prove you’re smart enough, a psychiatric evaluation to confirm you’re not a crazy motherfucker and an IRS audit to verify you can in fact support a family — I think this must be the standard for allowing people to have kids.
It is often possible to encounter or perceive a sense of competition, one-upmanship, and non-co-operation from peers and colleagues.
Dear Babs,
My social media timelines have been at it once more. Weeks of smiling photos, laughing video blogs…
Have yo ever had that feeling that you’re talking to someone but they aren’t listening? You aren’t alone. I…
The Struggle Behind Success
Everyone saw the smile he used to put on his face the entire day. People envied him, his life and his business. But unfortunately, nobody cared to observe the sadness behind that…
holding his pale palms outstretched, water-stained sedimentary rocks filling his hands, and I smile and say It…
Nell Carter starred as the main character in the 1980s sitcom Gimme a Break where she, Nell, agrees to live with her deceased best friend’s husband, a police chief, and help raise his three daughters…
Abraham Lincoln
I’m not someone who likes to ask for or accept help. While I love helping others, I feel a great deal of shame around asking others for help when I need it.
But I’ve come to the realization recently, thanks in large part to Dr. Brené Brown…
We sold L2, the firm I founded in 2010, today to Gartner (NYSE: IT). The transaction is, undeniably, a good / great thing for the…
My Crazy First Year Out of College + How I Learned All the Things
There are several shorthand measures to determine if an industry is about to get disrupted (consultant-speak for “bitch-slapped”). I was self-conscious…
(Part II of “You Have a Choice”) (Number 3 of “Ten Things I Learned in India”)
“Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears.” Laird Hamilton
What people don’t tell you about life is that the edges of it’s stages aren’t as clearly defined as the rest of…
Have you sat in the arms of darknessbrave learned to grapple with the blackthat lives…
This weeks blog comes from Emily — one of the TIs currently on placement here at Ardgour!
“We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training.” — Archilochus
When we see a star athlete like Lebron James, Tom Brady, Serena Williams or Roger Federer, what we are…
I’m in Dallas for a board meeting. Something wonderful, and unexpected, happened at Dallas Forth Worth airport. (When’s the last time you heard…
Scarcity is key to irrational prices. Beachfront property is scarce and, regardless of the economic cycle, is always super expensive. You can also manufacture scarcity with…
When I was getting started early on in my career I made a lot of mistakes. I was unhappy, working for people who didn’t respect me and I was lost. I was unsure as to whether or not I wanted to continue being a developer and for a while, I was…
Are you one of those people who would sacrifice anything to help a family member, do anything to put a smile on your…
In December I spent two weeks in Sri Lanka, and every morning I went to a yoga class. Most days I would arrive on time, although I would often cut it fine.
One day I was running late, and I’d decided to buy some sweets for the little boy that…
Day: Friday, Place: Office
Time: 5 PM
You check the time. Like you have been doing since the past one hour. Aah! Just one more our to kill till it’s officially weekend, you think and grin mentally. You’ve…
Weekly Musings from @profgalloway
We’ve accepted the notion that algorithms, specifically Google and Facebook’s, control our lives, nudging us toward what we read, believe, and…
I have a dislike for beginnings.
A girl won’t grow up to be a man. – Never.
I recently watched a tribute video to an old friend who died around a year ago. I met this man in law school. He taught…
I’d say I’m fairly low tolerance of bullshitting around. I’ve my mum’s lessons and several years working in off-licenses, on front desks and cafes to thank for that. Probably most people who have worked in retail or customer service reach that stage where at some point you lose your young and innocent naivety…
In 1999, I and a gaggle of other SF internet founders and CEOs went to an airfield where we browsed private jets. It made sense that, at 34, I should have a one-bedroom…
At eighteen the depression set in. By twenty I was downing Pepto-Bismol like shots every day because my stomach…
Apakah melakukan social media detox begitu sulit? Let’s find out!
Once upon a time there was a boy. Born in a third world country, this boy looked out into his world with a longing to understand it fully. The boy became an adult. EVERYTHING CHANGED! Yet his desire to discover all truths has forever remained childlike within…
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” — Steve Jobs
Ever since I can remember I’ve been pretty loud. My voice is loud, my attitude, my opinions. I was never one of those quiet and shy kids, in fact I was…
So this is an interesting one!
The story of how we decided on the name ‘Innov8’.
When the why is clear, the how is easy.
They say we are not the mistakes we’ve made nor the successes we’ve achieved. Perhaps that’s true but i’m certain all of this is as well.
I am the broken heart of the first girl I loved and lied to. I am the anger and pain that helped her pack. I am the sorrow I swam in after and the red bull…
More than a year ago, I left the tech world. I have gone on quite a few adventures since then. Diving in Koh Tao, surfing in Bali…
(July 9 2017 = 18 years old)
I am the Powell’s Instacart runner.
So today marks 6 months to the day since I was devastatingly widowed. I woke up, fed my daughter and looked at the clock, remembering the time, 6 months ago, that the police arrived at the door. It all seems like yesterday. Things seemed to be getting more manageable but it seems like it’s worse…
Dear Mom,
One of the things that hurts the most about leaving Christianity is disappointing people. So many of my heroes are devoted believers. I never feel guilty about the changes I’ve made since leaving, but when I think of how you must feel about it, I…
I know what I need to do but I’m not doing it. I need to fix up the formatting errors on my resume. Need to sound more confident on the phone. Practice my answers to the common interview questions. So simple yet so difficult. If I don’t do it, then I can sit here and blame all my circumstances for…
Every so often (nearly every weekend) I find myself in a local Italian restaurant that I have been going to for well over a decade. I…
I hate when people refer to bad timing — I don’t think the Universe gets it wrong. You just aren’t willing to accept the gifts — the gift of a new relationship or lasting love or a new career so you make up the excuse that it’s the timings fault. You are thrown a thread of something…
There are no regrets in life. Just lessons. -Jennifer Aniston
Honest and thought provoking post, Mia. I can remember having most of those fears and frustrations over the years. And yes love, deep relationships and freedom all rate high. But for me, so does happiness. It can sounds trite, even boring, but all those other things can lead you to being content, and it’s not a bad place to end up. The price? All the…
It happened today. I could feel it coming. It was oppressive, looming, a storm on the horizon that just wouldn’t break, just lingered…
published in part on Instagram 12/17/16 @elizabeth.meg
I thought I might get out of bed today. I know I’m not supposed to wallow. But it’s much to hard and much to sad; I’d rather waste the day away.
Worthless carbon , left to ‘bide.Until the rocks compressed me.Pressing at me from all sides.It was pain beyond degree.
“It’s been 9 months since I last heard your voice. Sometimes if I close my eyes and think hard enough, I can still hear it. I can hear you laughing, whispering sweet nothings…
Every week, I have multiple coaching calls with people who are worried.
Videos are great resources to learn new things. I watch tonnes of video’s to expand my knowledge base. I would like to share some interesting points that I have inferred form these amazing resources.
*We should never ask “why me” and always remember that whenever we are pointed out for something or selected for something, then we deserve it or own it.For example,
This is one of the most powerful mental unlocks ever. First, let’s define what I mean by mental unlock. It’s something that fundamentally changes the way you think — and as a result — has a significant positive impact on your life.
Mondays are hard.
Waking up is hard.
Formulas can be dangerous, but I love the way you’ve crafted this one Mia, especially that you added connection. It’s such an important and powerful part of what makes us human. So often we take it for granted. I wouldn’t change your formula, but as a test, think of connection with friends and family (minus the dysfunctional ones, of course!), with…
Does so and so really think I can do this?”
“The events unfolding in my eyes and I can’t do anything about it”
Después de leer ese libro*, todo me pareció muy claro. Las personas morimos infinidad de veces, pero no nos damos cuenta. Algo sucede — a veces es cuestión de segundos — y sin que nadie lo note, una parte vital de nosotros abandona el cuerpo a su suerte, dejándolo medio acartonado, más delgado y más…
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s…
Note: I wrote this pre-dawn of Day 24 of my Switchfoot Bro-Am Run. But I hesitated sharing, and decided to keep the title as-is.
“And we find what we’re made of, Through the open doors, Is it fear you’re afraid…
When I was growing up, I used to read a lot of the daily comic strips. My all time favourites were…
I hate applying for jobs. Period.
by Iris L. Kitching
I was 24 when I decided to start my first business. The term entrepreneur wasn’t in my vocabulary at the time. But I knew I could not be happy working for someone else.
I’m no different to you
Today I cried and coughed and spit and heaved over the toilet. My mind let go and my body broke open and allowed…
I love birds. If I wasn’t from Hackney, I think I would probably be in a birdwatching club and roll through the country-side with binoculars and eagerly wait for a glimpse of a new creature that floats through the sky above.
What is it about storms that you remember them fondly?Destructive and Violent, wrecking havoc everywhere.But every time you'll talk of one, Your eyes will light up strangely.
The outdoor session was amazing. There was highest learning and lots of…
There, I said it.
Don’t Get Over It, Deal With It
Life has a funny way of bringing people into your life, letting you get attached, and then ripping them away from you. I’ve been in this vicious cycle for all of my life. Every person I have ever made some kind of real attachment to has been separated from…
Comparing yourself with others can often leave you full of negative energy.
We’re born with wings some blue some pinkWe cross these clouds from snow white house…
You’re being judged.
Everyday.
Judged by yourself.
And, judged my others.
Judged by people you know, love, and trust.
It pains me to see people who aren’t excelling in their jobs — people in the wrong industry or at the wrong…
Relationships are funny that way, it takes two to be together but just one to end it. Its a mutual relationship until it isn’t any more. At which point, one has probably already started to walk away while the other is left fighting on their own to hold it…
Just like life itself….takes years to master and perhaps never mastered at all.
To me, Lewis’ statement is the hallmark of humility — recognizing one’s limitations and the need/requirement for continuous learning and absorption of wisdom and feedback from our peers.
Thanks so much for this post. I enjoyed it thoroughly!
Relationships.
When I look around, I see people happily in love, people in complicated relationships and the heart broken ones.All I think of is, is this…
What might meditation do for you?
Spend 6 whole minutes and listen to what a handful of people have to say about…
The classic rules handed down through generations of Rangers in a slideshow presentation.
This weekend was what I will probably look back on in years to come and remember as a “good” weekend. There were no big…
Ann: Hey Rosy, did you come across the “XYZ” Café in town?
What is a prospector? It’s someone who believes it’s out there; who wakes up…
Most of us have a life totally miserable and wretch.We are just breathing, surviving but not LIVING. Beacuse we are day dreamers from lesser to greater degree. We have blurry thoughts which amaze us in so many ways. I, sometimes wonder how a wandering mind in the valleys of getting…
Nobody is listening to me. Nobody is watching me. Nobody is paying any attention to me…
As I was impressed by both Choose Yourself and Power of No by James Altucher, I picked up this book and I was relieved that it was largely like Choose Yourself.
The book is written in a no nonsense in-your-face style, which I enjoy. It…
When was the last time you had a meaningful conversation with someone? Think of it well. A real…
College : A Comedy
College. A place where people go to study Science but end up specializing in chemistry. Where they go to study math but keep checking their equations. Where they go to study art. Yes you read it right. Need I say further? 😉
Jeff, I love this thought. It is so easy to want the big thing before building it on a foundation of the smallest increment first. It’s why so many businesses fail as well. Thanks for your words.
Like Like Like.
It’s starting to remind me of a cough or a sneeze or a shooting pain — something sick is going on.
I’m well aware of the difficulty of being. The Question that’s knotted up humans for always…
Dear mom and dad,
I know you did the very best you could whenever possible. I appreciate every moment of darkness we faced as no matter what I knew there was always a small token of love In every stitch. You nor I have ever been or will ever be perfect or maybe even a mile from the current but I still love you.
Said the Sage…
I don’t know if you’re familiar with Joe Bob Briggs, the drive-in movie critic (http://www.joebobbriggs.com/index.php/en/damn-good-writing/joe-bobs-america/1021-51091-america), but your writing style reminds me of his writing style. That is, you infuse sagacious advice with humor.
While having a conversation with two older men at work, they went on and on, talking about their children and how they go to bars and have as many drinks as they have kids. They rambled for a good ten…
Career prep fellowship is a life long journey. Amal Academy is a platform from I have learnt lot of. I firmly told here that the three months at Amal Academy trained me and teach me more than 22 years of…
A walk to move on from.
It’s time. I started writing this on her birthday, I suspect it’s time I can put it wholly behind me. Put it to bed. I can considered adding a picture to the blog, an old favorite of mine from the final year of school. But I feel a little mystery will be nice. It’ll take a while to write this, but…
Sometimes making big decisions, especially life changing ones, can be really difficult. Whether or not to quit a university course or a job, end a relationship, make an expensive purchase — how do you decide?
The number of labels I’ve had tossed around my depression is mind-boggling.
First it was: maybe a personality disorder? Nope. Depression.
Although he worked in another department, Lucas was a colleague I worked with in the same company; a mid-sized but growing organization in an exciting and relatively new field. He happened to own a side-business, for extra income. This business was a firm he co-owned with a couple of former class…
Have you ever heard a motivational phrase?
New Love ………
In the middle of the night, I woke up to the sudden noises near the window. So I started to wonder who it might be at this hour, a thief, or maybe some crazy stalker I dream of.
When the noises calmed down,I looked at the window.There stood the figure of 6 feet , Rohan. We have been…
Day #5: What’s the most important thing people don’t know about you? (HT Donnica Moore)
5/22/17, South Orange
It all started with a text on a semi-nice weather day in late March. March 28th to be exact. I was hurrying around at home…
“Surviving is probably the easiest thing that I can do right now”
I found this quote a few months ago when I was drowning in every aspect of my life. I don’t remember where I heard it, but I knew I wanted to say something about it, so I saved a draft with only this line. I knew I’d get to it eventually. So, it’s been a…
This is my first post on Medium, so I thought it would be appropriate; and interesting, to write about first steps in new pursuits.
I find comparing opposites interesting, as it allows us to take a closer look at black and white. Life; of course, is grey. But…
I was strolling back from a spot of shopping last weekend. It was a crisp autumn evening with a fierce blue sky acting as the…
All the humans are flawed creatures. Its too human to fail to do mistakes. But its courage and perseverance that takes to step up and fight.
Thanks for sharing Robert,
I suppose I always assumed that only the student could learn from the teacher, and the teacher couldn’t learn from the student. But your story is an example of a student who becomes the teacher. This makes me think that maybe I can impact my teachers and should spend less time searching for…
Intolerance seems to be the new Cardinal sin, the unforgivable offense for which people are deemed ignorant, in fact, unworthy to live. However most of those measuring up others and deeming them “intolerant” are actually judging themselves by their close-minded verdicts. They are intolerant of any viewpoint but their own, of any lifestyle but their…
We usually hear people saying “No money, no honey” and laugh at this sad joke/fact. But how about “no money, no worries”? Have you heard about this before?
I only got to know this from a friend during our Monopoly Millionaire game yesterday. You’ll be the winner of…
On Saturday afternoon I noticed a crow sitting on the hood of my wife’s car. This was totally weird because they…
Perhaps the tragic result of my persistent neglect for everything seemingly…
Vacant skies above, reflect the darkness in your heart. If the end is your goal, where do you even start? The winds bring no answer…
My apologies to Neil Degrassi Tyson, but I have no idea how gravity works. Yet I’m damn sure it exists. I’m not one to take someone’s word for…
