I owe you a “Part 2″ post on how I got my new position as a Career Development Program Manager at Google. Trust me – I’ve been working on it. But I started writing about all the various networking and interviewing tactics I used in a mile-long list of tasks, and I bored myself to [...]
September 2009
I would be remiss if I didn’t write the obligatory “big personal athletic moment as metaphor for life” blog post after finishing my triathlon. So here I go. Contrary to the story I made up for many years that “I could never do a triathlon because the swimming would kill me,” yesterday I completed the [...]
Editor’s Note: I was blown away by the response and diversity of opinions on my post last month: Dating – Do You Go For Quantity or Quality? With 43 responses, it was by far my most commented-on post to-date. Beyond the comments, the post sparked MANY conversations over email, phone, and in my head. I [...]
The following is a guest post that I was excited to contribute to ING Direct‘s blog, We the Savers last week. Re-posting here for those of you that didn’t get a chance to read it! “The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now.” -Zig Zigler [...]
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will [...]
“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are [...]
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