I’m sitting here watching my boys slurp Cheerios and milk and overwhelmed with gratitude. I adore them. They mean everything to me. I did not know parenting would be so hard and so all consuming. My parents did an exceptional job of not transferring their stress and worry onto my brothers and me and...
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You can’t row a boat without oars. You need the equipment in place in order to propel yourself along the water. No good stroke was taken simply by thinking about it. You have to do the thing to do the thing and get good at it or enjoy it. So it is with anything...
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Today I walked outside to see huge beautiful flowers blooming wide open on two of my pumpkin plants. They delighted me so much. There is something so special about growing your own vegetables. I could fiddle in the garden all day. I want to learn. When I learn I grow. And growth makes me...
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Forgive me in advance as this is not a fully formed thought. But I’ve given myself five minutes to write and it’s important to me that I flex this muscle tonight. I’ve been letting goals like writing daily slip and I don’t feel good about it. So here we go. How do you incentivize...
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Four years ago today I joined Amazon as a technical recruiter. I started my career as part of the Recruiter Academy Program, which was a four and a half month program designed to teach new recruiters all the ins and outs of recruiting at Amazon. I was making a huge career transition out of...
Continue readingHello Chaos My Old Friend
Everything feels so hard right now. Work. Family. It all feels super charged. One minute I’m riding high. The next I’m feeling desperate and despairing. Things are still not normal. In fact they are more hectic than ever. Humans are just terrible at taking the pressure off even with a backdrop of an ongoing...
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I have five minutes to write something. Anything. I don’t have time to mess around and deliberate and be brilliant. I have to write. In the moment. Five minutes isn’t a lot of time. One of the things I’m experimenting with at work is putting constraints into my day as a forcing mechanism. If...
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Lately I feel afraid. Of everything. Or at least it feels that way. I work at a company that has principles we use every day to guide our decision making. And I believe in them. Speak to candidates about them. Apply them to my work. But when I’m off the clock I feel like...
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I built a three tiered raised bed today. I had a general idea of what I wanted to do. Got about what I thought I needed in terms of wood and screws. And I started to build. I made a lot of mistakes. I mis-measured or forgot to measure. I got too little wood....
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I’ve got a 4×4 raised bed in my front yard that is teeming with life. We are growing onions, beets, carrots, cucumber, zucchini, and some beautiful marigolds. This little 4×4 is exploding with growth. I tend to it each day and marvel at how much can happen in such a small space. I water...
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