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Learning to Remember

December 15 – 5 Minutes

Imagine you will completely lose your memory of 2010 in five minutes. Set an alarm for five minutes and capture the things you most want to remember about 2010.

These fruits that grow in Jamaica remind me on little miniature brains (but they taste really good with eggs).

This was sort of a good exercise, except by nature of the exercise and having been reflecting on the past year for over a week now, mostly what came to mind were the big life-changing moments of 2010 or just the really exciting moments. I . . . → Read More: Learning to Remember

On TNGG: Volunteering at Bonnaroo

I’ve been writing over at The Next Great Generation for some months now (archives here), but my most recent piece took a lot of emotional labor to write and required learning some new skills like learning how to make videos in iMovie, so I wanted to make sure to share this particular one with my readers.

Bonnaroo was sort of this life-changing, mind re-wiring, boundary-testing sort of experience that I’ve been trying to comprehend for weeks now. This particular article (only one of many possible perspectives) focuses on my experience as a vendor specifically and why I probably will . . . → Read More: On TNGG: Volunteering at Bonnaroo

Mixing It Up

Sometimes you need to step away from the daily grind and try something new. That’s pretty much what I’ve been doing the past month:

Spoke at an “unconference”. As my most recent post stated, I gave my first presentation to a group of about 15 product developers, product managers, and others after giving a quick 20-second pitch to a group of about 100 at ProductCamp RTP on May 22nd. It was a fantastic success. I learned a tremendous amount about my own public speaking skills as well as learning how to teach and/or explain an idea to a group . . . → Read More: Mixing It Up