On Being a Regular Guy

November 11, 2009

I stumbled across a blogger who commented (with seeming surprise) that the founder of Google “seemed like a regular guy.” In my experience, many highly successful people come across this way if you meet them in private. People with confidence in themselves seem to leap over the vast middle in most arenas – bad haircuts, [...]

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Note to My Spin Instructor

October 12, 2009

The time spent playing air guitar and doing karaoke might have been better spent: checking in with people in the class about their health issues telling people how to set up the bike educating the class about the hand positions leading guided breathing exercises supplying enough information about heart rate zones and how to measure [...]

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Seattle – So Far, So Good

September 10, 2009

I can’t help but noticing that the housing situation here in Seattle seems much better than in San Francisco. Is it “cheap”? No, that’s a myth. But it seems people have a relatively easy time finding something affordable, getting into a place that allows pets, and making a home without insane roommate situations.

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Six-Word Memoir

September 1, 2009

Golden Road. No car; I walked.

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Getting My Preppie On

August 14, 2009

I am too cheap to buy the book that contains Carol Bly’s essay, “How Radiation Oncology Almost Made Me a Republican”, but I’ve always been intrigued by the teaser quote from the piece on her Web site: “What makes someone act like a conservative? I finally—these four years later—have figured it out. For those forty-five [...]

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An Obligatory Check-In

August 9, 2009

I’ve been neglecting this blog but for good reason. Started working on some fun and all-consuming projects for Microsoft and planning a move to the North.

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Meet the New Boss … Not the Same as the Old Boss?

July 26, 2009

This suggests an entirely different role for all people in the “socializing” professions – teachers, therapists, managers – that they will be stripped of their charge to enforce rules and extract specific behaviors from people. Instead they will be equal co-creators building environments that others can build in.

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Does Politically Driven Language Have an Expiration Date?

July 18, 2009

This week I picked up a favorite book for a re-read: Aphrodite’s Daughters: Women’s Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul. The ideas still resonate, as do the chapters written in the standard pop psychology language that has been with us since the 1970s. What seemed incredibly dated was the 1990s vintage essentialist feminism: [...]

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Old School Websites

July 12, 2009

I’m always surprised to see sites created recently that look as if they were designed in 1995. Independent tables to scroll. Text and photos centered all the way down the page. Ticker tape scroll across the top or bottom of the page – sometimes both. I wonder if what strikes me so hard is the [...]

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Interpreting a Life – Thoughts on Biography & Autobiography

July 1, 2009

I posted this originally in LinkedIn Answers, in response to a question about why a writer would “bother” to compose a biography of a person who’d already written an autobiography. I’ve been intrigued by both of these genres since I could read. My thoughts: These two genres create entirely different relationships between author, subject, and [...]

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