What do you want?

Oct 14, 2011 | Life

This is one of my favorite questions. I ask it all the time. Ask it before you write an email, before you go to lunch, before you start your day. Ask it of yourself, ask it of your friends, ask it at meetings. What do you want? You may want a new computer, a pay...

What an UH-OH looks like.

Oct 7, 2011 | Life, Travel

I was planning on running a quick errand. In the elevator of the AirBNB apartment I was renting, I made a to-do list: Pack. Ship. Mail. Dinner. Write. Check travel itinerary. Get ready to head back to the States tomorrow, early. I grabbed my keys and my bag and...

The big design problem? Designing your life.

Oct 6, 2011 | Life, Motivation

I’m deep in the throes of reading two books by one of my favorite authors. Before I tell you who it is, I want to include an excerpt from one of the books: “I’m a welter of insecurities. I’m insecure about not understanding what the next person...

What’s worse?

Oct 3, 2011 | Life

Disappointing others? Or disappointing yourself?

20 lessons from starting a project, part two: launch week.

Sep 20, 2011 | Crafting Your Career, Less is More: Living Minimally and Simply, Life

I’m breathing again, having just launched our website project this past week. Everything was set to go live early in the week – launch campaign emails, final website tweaks, coordination with the team, announcements to be sent, facebook posts, advance tweets. I woke...

The lessons you need most, learning the hard way, and big dreams: part 1

Sep 9, 2011 | Crafting Your Career, Less is More: Living Minimally and Simply, Life

I’ll be honest, My face hurts. It might be from the lack of sleep, or the fact that my face is currently crushed against a table in a coffeeshop, where I’ve inadvertendly placed my head down for a quick snooze, and now I’m covered in drool and...