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When output is heavy 22 Aug 2013 | 09:55 pm
Last week, Sarah articulated so beautifully what I too have been feeling — always, to some extent, and the last several months in particular — in my attempts to publish content: Meanwhile, the world ...
Grieving in real life 23 Jan 2013 | 06:01 am
Too much. That’s what the end of 2012 felt like. Everything, everyone, felt like too much. I allotted myself a month to formally grieve and didn’t even fully disengage for that month of time and attem...
Twenty-eight before twenty-nine 8 Jan 2013 | 05:53 am
In lieu of new year’s resolutions, I make a yearly life list every year on my birthday — a list of items equal in number to my years, composed of things to accomplish before my next birthday. (See als...
Book Club, Week 5: Chapter 5 of Quiet 12 Dec 2012 | 05:40 am
“We can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead… We are like rubber bands at rest. We are elastic and can stretch ourse...
Book Club, Week 4: Chapter 4 of Quiet 4 Dec 2012 | 10:42 pm
Susan Cain opens chapter 4 with a bold question: Is temperament destiny? She then goes on to discuss reactivity in infants and children and its relationship to introversion. In the past, I’ve read a b...
Book club hiatus 9 Nov 2012 | 05:03 am
These last three weeks of book club conversation have been such a delight. I cannot even tell you how much and how deeply I have appreciated and enjoyed your transparency, openness, and insight. As ma...
Book Club, Week 3: Chapter 3 of Quiet 31 Oct 2012 | 03:35 am
Artists work best alone where they can control an invention’s design without a lot of other people designing it for marketing or some other committee. I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has...
Book Club, Week 2: Chapter 2 of Quiet 23 Oct 2012 | 09:29 am
If chapter 1 was all about the extrovert ideal and the culture of personality, chapter 2 is all about the places where these ideals are most prevalent. Fundamentally, chapter 2 is about ideas. Cain ve...
Book Club, Week 1: Chapter 1 of Quiet by Susan Cain 16 Oct 2012 | 11:03 am
Susan Cain opens Quiet with the story of Rosa Parks. Like Cain, I too always pictured Parks as a brassy, bold person, both in demeanor and physical stature. But Cain writes: [Obituaries written after ...
Is empathy a weakness? 10 Oct 2012 | 07:03 am
In July, Wired published an article about “training people to be compassionate” rather than empathetic. In quoting Tania Singer, an expert from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain S...
