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A laugh for the day
Hilarious TED talk that gave me a much needed laugh especially after dealing with spammers in my own day to day.
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“Give Me Sex Jesus”
Wow – I grew up Christian and fell away from it later on. A lot of this stuff I heard growing up. The stories of having sex before marriage being like giving away your present – that you’d be damaged goods after the fact. As I’ve gotten older and have embraced my own sexuality, I realize […]
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Most authentic thing about us
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. -Ben Okri Someone asked me once what most inspires me about being human. My answer – our capacity to heal. From the unimaginable stories of loss and tragedy to the […]
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That pretty life
I have loved this song since I first heard it – the first notes had me hooked really. It’s been the tune for my alarm clock ever since. Why not wake up to a song you love and adore? It’s one of those songs that when I listen to it, I’m almost immediately hypnotized into reflection. I don’t […]
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A bigger disconnect
Observation of the day: When you don’t hear from someone despite there being so many damn ways to connect, it hurts more. It feels like a bigger disconnect than if we only had the option to write letters. I would be more patient if I knew that I’d only hear from someone via mail… but […]
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In Motion
I like movement. Specifically, I like being in motion – biking, driving, working out. My mind responds well to my body in motion in whatever form it takes. It’s simple why: Being in motion makes me physically feel what it’s like to move forward. When I am trying to convince my mind and soul to move on, […]
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Connecting the dots
At the end of my senior year while working at web.unc.edu, I sat down with a developer on my team determined to learn how to build a plugin. “Do you know what a boolean is?” I froze. No. “Do you know what an array is?” “Do you know what a function is?” “Do you know […]
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Global reach reserved for kings
This is the follow up to my first post about the book “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now” by Douglas Rushkoff. Let’s dive into some awesome quotes from the book since I’ve finished it long long ago yet still find myself thinking about it daily 🙂 “We can produce more effects in more than one […]
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Surrogacy Conference Session
Over the weekend, I was traveling and listening to podcasts when one by Radio Lab caught my attention: Birthstory. It’s about an Israeli couple and the lengths they went to in order to use a surrogate. It stopped me in my tracks as it was one of the first times I’ve listened to an actual […]
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Reflection on “Status Update”
When I travel, I tend to binge listen to podcasts as I’ve found them to be an amazing tool for getting through long flights. During the most recent trek for WCUS, I listened to This American Life’s “Status Update”. It was an incredible insight into the various Status Updates we have in our society. I find […]
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The best habit I have
I was thinking about habits recently and generally how I spend my time. How I love to go get a cup of coffee in the morning. How I read news articles on my phone and hover in and out of sleep when I just wake up. I’ve thought a lot about breaking habits recently. For example, […]
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I want this Thanksgiving Miracle
I’ve already been biting my tongue since being home mainly because I know my thanksgiving is going to be a lot like the following skit minus adele saving the day 😉 Watch & laugh.
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“You should wear your hair down”
I’ve heard the above statement more times in my life than I can remember. The ironic thing is that about 10 years ago, I heard the opposite “You should wear your hair up”. I had a bob cut back then and everyone convinced me it was better to grow my hair out and wear my hair up. […]
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White Male Allies
I work at Automattic, you know, the people who power this website amongst what seems like a million other things. After working at the epitome of bro-tech start up in San Francisco, it was refreshing to join the wonderful crew here. However, I was skeptical and anxious when I joined my all male team filled with mostly […]
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If you can keep your head
I always finished tests first. I finished the AP Latin exam in high school in 40 minutes leaving an hour and 20 minutes for me to nap. One of my classmates and close friends thought that I had given up only to find out after that I just finished really early. I got a 5 on the exam. […]
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Seek Balance
My job the summer going into my sophomore year was working at dorm. I had the glamorous title of a “conference assistant” along with the 10 or so other students who decided to stick around that summer. It’s the only job I’ve ever had that never involved WordPress so that might explain why I didn’t enjoy it […]
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Dublin Views
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Dublin Art
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Dublin in Food
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Accelerate.LGBT
I stand on the shoulders of giants. On Thursday, I met a number of people in Dublin who have been fighting hard for LGBT rights in their country. People who spent their free time going door to door having conversations with people from all different backgrounds. People who years ago called politicians repeatedly only to be […]
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Automattic: One Year Anniversary
On my one year anniversary at Automattic on September 4th, I was on a plane headed from Toronto to Dublin. I sat next to a French Canadian who owned a winery and a dairy farm outside of Ottawa. We spoke of favorite travels, how fascinating anthropology is, and how it’s a shame most Americans aren’t […]
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What technology has given me
I was just headed out the door to go to a coffee shop and read when I received a text from my dad. “You awake? WP Emergency”. When duty calls… Kidding aside, I love when this happens. I love getting VaultPress tickets (the product I work on) saying a user’s site is down because it’s […]
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Time off
I haven’t taken more than 2 days off at a time since working at Automattic. I’m coming up on my one year and am realizing that going forward I need extended periods of time off more often. Today hit me like a ton of bricks and completely stopped me in my tracks. I’ve being gone […]
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Flooding
I haven’t looked at social media in months. The result has been that I haven’t seen pictures of loved ones for months nor do I know what they are doing/where they are beyond the random text messages and happenstance meetups. After meeting my great uncle 2 weeks ago and heading home to FL, I decided […]
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Thoughts on UX
UX. User experience. User interface. Human focused design. It’s odd – every conference, youtube video, TED talk, etc. I’ve listened to/watched has all talked about how this design is meant to make it easier for a person (user) to complete an action basically. Look at how easy it is to tweet! Look at how many […]
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Why I’m tracking my vacation time part 2
In part 1, I set out to track how many days I took off from work. It’s been successful thus far in that I am tracking the time. It’s been unsuccessful in me actually taking time off though. I took a step back today and have implemented a couple of things to help make sure […]
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Make note of this
When I was 16, I witnessed a traumatic accident where a soccer teammate of mine was slammed into a garage door by another teammate at a fundraising car wash. I can’t say I’ve been the same since. Tomorrow, I’m going to the World Cup finals – something I planned on doing for years that’s finally become […]
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A proposal for a new emotion
Inspired by yet another one of these pop culture posts about words that describe feelings that we can’t put into words, I have a proposal for a new emotion/word: The feeling of changing your social media profile picture. I’m completely off of social media but today I was spiffying up my other site when I changed one […]
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Watching the masters at work
The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work. – Michael Jackson I work on the VaultPress team and just finished trying to clear out a very hacked site. One of my favorite parts of the job has been diving into the security side of things purely because some of the hacks can […]
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There aren’t any words
At 5:35AM Wednesday morning, I watched my mom climb into the taxi that had just pulled up to take her to the airport. My adventure with her was over but it has been one that will stay with me always. My mom and I have always wanted to travel together. We’ve talked about it like someone on […]
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