Category: Articles
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First lesson in magic
It’s infinitely easier for me to write stuff for kids than for parents specifically. I used to be a kid and never been a parent so in theory this kinda makes sense. I’m still trying to grasp how is it possible that I find it easier to communicate with a seven year old than with…
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A Course in Adulthood
My husband Artur is one of the wisest people I know. He’s almost never afraid. He actively seeks the most challenging thing to be done, and then does this. When there’s a car engine to be replaced, he replaces the engine. When there’s a feature in WordPress that is missing, he creates it all by…
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Onboarding
1. Pick one thing that terrifies you most.2. Work on it until you’re somewhat comfortable with it.3. Share what you’ve learned.4. Repeat. The more I think about it, the more it seems that Jed McKenna’s transformational process and onboarding on my project team are basically the same thing.
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Questions
What is true? What do I need to get honest about? What am I afraid of? What’s triggering me? What am I unwilling to feel? What am I unwilling to let go of? What am I not seeing here? What am I conflicted about? What am I clinging to? What am I? *** and the…
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The art of doing nothing
Fold yourself in half. Don’t move. Let the gravity do the work for you. This doesn’t sound like much. But it’s actually quite a lot. When you hold one position like this for several minutes, a lot of tension and discomfort is going to come to surface. A thousand reasons to stop will immediately cross…
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Reminder to self
I meant to write a long post, but got pulled into some fascinating chats on Twitter instead. I don’t regret having them, but they didn’t bring me any closer to solving the problems that are on my mind right now. Here’s a reminder that while it’s great to brainstorm ideas with others, finding the gem…
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My favorite kind of people
It takes a very special kind of a person to voluntarily choose to do things that no one else wants to do. Customers shouting at you, things broken beyond repair, setups so complicated that you can barely hold the whole thing in your head at once. Ten different threads tangled together into a big messy…
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Going meta
There’s something very meta about creating and writing down the rules and metrics that will be used to evaluate myself and my teammates. I never had a chance to do that before. In my previous roles I either had a set of requirements set by my boss and their boss, or only a vague unspoken…
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Jed McKenna’s books
I’m going to come back to Jed McKenna here many times. He blew my mind completely, but it was a journey through hell. I really wasn’t sure if I’d come out of this alive. What saved me was this blog, and my husband explaining what these books mean to me in one sentence. My husband…
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Dream board
What’s the boldest dream that you can come up with? What would you like to experience? What do you want to create? In what ways would you like to grow? What physical objects would you like to see in your life? I meditated a bit on all of these questions, then created a collage of…
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