Tribal Weekend
It’s been a busy couple of weekends, and I was determined (or rather, hopeful) that I wouldn’t go crazy. Thoughts about identity and being part of a tribe follow. The first weekend of May was New...
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Adventures in Freelancing: Recap of Recent Work
Whew! I’ve been deeply immersed in refreshing a museum exhibit, Take A Stand at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie. We wrapped it at the end of last week, with me attending the installation...
View ArticleOn Facial Pampering
Since 2005, I’ve been driving to Danvers, Massachusetts to get my hair cut. It’s an hour drive each way, which is perhaps excessive for a hair cut but it satisfies my need for periodic road trips while...
View ArticlePSA: New England Give Camp Applications for Non-Profits due by Mar 13
Are you a New England Non-profit looking for some friendly tech, design, and marketing help from generous volunteers in a 3-day weekend blowout? Consider applying to New England Give Camp. The...
View ArticleFamily Visits and Notebooks
It’s been a pretty crazy month. After finishing up the exhausting “month of marketing”, I launched into a couple of projects and finished doing my taxes. That gave me a few days to completely clean-out...
View Article“Inner Voices” on Radiolab
I sometimes wonder if all the writing, reflection, and reframing I do is hinders or helps; the Radiolab episode Inner Voices is stuffed with research-based anecdotes in a crisply-produced package. For...
View ArticleMe? AD/HD?
Last week I received a fascinating email from long-time reader Dr. Heather Brannon, a family medicine physician who has been treating Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (aka AD/HD) exclusively...
View ArticleBreaking Out of Thought Loops
At this very moment, which is 8:40PM on a Friday night, I am hungry. For food. However, having had a rather full-yet-unsatisfying day, I am also feeling quite lazy. It’s also one of the first...
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“Coding for Charity” at New England GiveCamp
This past April 4-6 saw me pitching a new tent in the hallways of the Microsoft NERD Center near MIT in Cambridge for New England GiveCamp, where around 100 developers of all stripes joined forces...
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Bowler Hats and Bingo Balls
A few days ago I was talking to some people in the video game community, and was complaining about making choices about what to do in the morning when there were sooo many things clamboring for my...
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Taiwan Trip Update for May 16, 2016
Wow, I can’t believe it’s been two weeks since I’ve arrived in history-steeped Taichung, Taiwan. I had thought I would be writing more, but this trip has become more of a vacation than a working trip....
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Ambient Coworking Chat on Discord
For the past three weeks I’ve been livestreaming a 15m project push on YouTube so I could have an anchoring daily ritual. This has helped me recover from an extreme slump in productivity I experienced...
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Taiwan 2018 Day 1 – Arrival!
It’s already the end of DAY 10 of this trip, and it’s the first time I’ve had a chance to write a blog post about the trip! Amazingly I only have gotten through 1 day of it; will try to catch up over...
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Taiwan 2018 Days 02 to 04
ADVENTURES IN TAIWAN continue. This entry picks-up on April 27-28. On Friday, we left our temporary lodging at Uncle’s house in Sha-Lu so my sister could get her teeth checked. Uncle is a...
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Taiwan 2018 Day 05 – Paying Respects
Continuing my Taiwan 2018 Trip Blog Series for April 29! Exhausted from Saturday’s events, Sunday was decreed to be a day of rest followed by a visit to the family tomb to pay our respects. I believe...
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Taiwan 2018 Day 06 – Sun Moon Lake
Continuing my Taiwan 2018 Trip Blog Series for Monday April 30! After resting from a long weekend of family-related matters, we took a car to Sun Moon Lake, one of Taiwan’s most famous and scenic...
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Daily 020: Mission Goals, Makerspaces, and Other Indulgences
Happy Tuesday! I’m a bit behind on my work, having had a rather reactive day yesterday as well as trying some new processes. Today is going to be another one of those days and I am trying not to to...
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Taiwan 2018 Day 06-07 – The Lalu Hotel at Sun Moon Lake
Continuing my Taiwan 2018 Trip Blog Series for Monday-Tuesday April 30-May 1st! After touring around Sun Moon Lake on boats, we finally checked-in to the hotel, the The Lalu which is built into the...
View ArticleDaily 021: Sidestepping through Overextension
Last week I mentioned I was cutting back on blogging and streaming because I was feeling like I had lost touch with something important. I realized that I was feeling overextended, not able to produce...
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Taiwan 2018 Day 08 – Second Day at Sun Moon Lake
Continuing my Taiwan 2018 Trip Blog Series for Wednesday May 2nd! Where we last left off, we had just spent the night at a nice hotel and finished a great breakfast. We hit a few more places on the way...
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