Month: October 2010
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Hate To Break It To You is a recurring feature wherein we dispense succinct home truths that everyone could benefit from facing up to, unpleasant as they may be. Time is going to keep passing no matter how you choose to spend it. I hear a lot of folks bemoaning the fact (and I’m guilty…
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This week, I went through some old messages on a forum I used to frequent with the intent of scrapping them before the site itself closed up shop. But I couldn’t do it. Couldn’t hit delete and wipe ’em out permanently. There’s something to be said for a paper trail, ya know? Heck, I still…
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I’ve been thinking a lot about tenability, sustainability and the long term lately.There’s the idea that if you just keep on keeping on that you’ll eventually catch a break. Dues will be paid, you’ll figure out a system, things will get easier. But what if they don’t?
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Maybe it’s because family has been on my mind this week. Or maybe it’s because my mother just celebrated a birthday a couple of days ago and my father will celebrate one in less than a month. Or maybe it’s because I’ve been reading about other people’s less than idyllic upbringings and feeling pretty flippin’…
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Friday Philosophizing comes early this week! I ask open-ended questions. You answer. There will be tea, but not Earl Grey because that’s just wrong. Photo by dragonflysky
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I get unreasonably annoyed when I see someone “undeserving” enjoying success. It’s a petty impulse and shaped in large part by my desire to believe the world is meritocratic (it isn’t), but there you go. Talent, determination and ruthlessness you can’t really argue with, but the fact that Jersey Shore’s The Situation is set to…
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Last night, as I was standing at the Starbucks counter waiting for my extra-hot soy chai to be served, I noticed a stack of business cards by the register. Or rather, I noticed the name on the cards. It was the same name as that of a very helpful bureaucrat (ordinarily an oxymoron, but not…
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I don’t read or follow anyone who’s big in the personal development/motivation/entrepreneurship/social media spheres. Don’t read their blogs, couldn’t name their books, aren’t intrigued by their ideas and interested in subscribing to their newsletters, don’t follow ’em on Twitter, have only the vaguest idea of what TED is about (People giving speeches about how to…
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I’m borrowing this idea from Alexandra Franzen, friend of the blog. And while I lack Ms. Franzen’s level of congenial charm and pep (seriously, couldn’t she have left some for the rest of us?), I love the idea of simply throwing out there what we’re looking for to see what might happen. If you have…
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Testing out a new feature. I will ask open-ended questions and you will come up with your own answers. We will sip tea and look thoughtful. I will wear the glasses. Let me know what you think. Photo by Shandi-lee Which is preferable: Wanting what’s best for someone or wanting them to be happy? I…
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