1. Working. Somehow I landed a gig as the consulting content strategist for the Gates Foundation website redesign. It’s not particularly easy and they’re demanding, but it’s an amazing project to work on. The folks I spend time with at the Foundation are whip smart and quick witted and genuinely likeable. When I walk through …
… gonna eat me a lot of peaches.
Even in writing about why I’m not writing about it, I feel like I am saying too much. Wait, let me back up a little bit and explain. In November, I went to Hawaii to spend a week on the Big Island learning music. I was also there to write, I was invited as an …
I’m not a team player. This is not the same as being a bad worker, I’m really good at the work I do. I deliver, and yeah, you don’t have to take my word for it. What I’m bad at is the other stuff around teamwork. The meetings, the politics, the artificial niceties. As a …
When I first heard the song “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go,” I could barely sit through it while it played on the radio. It’s the saddest Bob Dylan song ever, which is saying something, though it is also my favorite. I learned how to play it on the uke once I could …