Reflections
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Right Now Is Just Fine
→: Right Now Is Just FineI travel completely chaotically. Most of the time I can’t remember where I’m staying (yay for free wifi at airports), I almost never exchange currency in advance, and I would never dream of arriving the “recommended” three hours before an international flight. The thing is, I know it will never be as awful as taking the boat…
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An Overarching Theme
→: An Overarching ThemeI feel tremendously fortunate that when I write something I’m hesitant to hit “post” on, people leave these amazing comments that make me feel like less of a failure and like whatever it was I wrote, was worth sharing. Having a crisis about not finishing grad school, I wrote Being Human, and then Dropping Out when I came to…
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Breaking Privacy Expectations
→: Breaking Privacy ExpectationsSomething strange happened a few weeks ago. My traffic was normal, but there was this enormous spike in page views. I later discovered someone was doing some stalking in order to write the most upsetting comment they could on something I’d written. Given my normal stats, I estimate they looked at over 500 pages and spent around…
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Planning 2011: Kiva Challenge, and Post-Grad-Rehab
→: Planning 2011: Kiva Challenge, and Post-Grad-RehabThis time last year, I made a list of what I wanted to happen in 2010. The goals I set were helpful and I met (or nearly met) most of them but next year everything is changing – I don’t know what goals I should be setting. How do I set professional goals for a…
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Fighting Incrementalist Tendencies
→: Fighting Incrementalist TendenciesI originally posted Making Ideas Happen: The Dreamer, the Doer, and the Incrementalist as a not-so-subtle hint to one of the dreamers in my life, and a reminder to myself to be aware of the downsides of being an incrementalist. And then Meggin left this great comment (emphasis added): I’m an incrementalist, through and through.…
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Trading Off Inconvenience Now vs. Inconvenience Later
→: Trading Off Inconvenience Now vs. Inconvenience LaterI finished reading Dear Undercover Economist (Amazon) last week. It’s an interesting book, well I think so – but then I have an AS in Economics and briefly thought that’s what I should study at university. But, the idea of applying economics to life appeals to me. In economics, actors (people) are assumed to be…
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School is Not Life
→: School is Not LifeThe biggest difference I see between the education system here and in the UK is grading, and that creates some interesting differences in perspective. In Canada, marks in the 90’s are commonplace. I actually got a 99 on one of my assignments – I was dying to know what caused the loss of a point,…
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Being Present
→: Being PresentI hate what I’m working on lately. That’s probably been apparent from the moaning on Twitter and somewhat angsty blogposts. It’s nearly done… but it doesn’t feel that way. It feels endless. What I’ve noticed, is how much of a struggle it is to be in the moment, working on whatever it is that I…
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The Reality Stick
→: The Reality StickI saw someone I hadn’t seen in a while, as part of enquiring how I was, he asked specifically how my blog was. I quipped, Oh the internet’s good. It’s the real world I have problems with. Lately, that keeps coming back to me. I feel like reality has a big stick that it’s beating…