Seven Days Without Twitter

This time last year, I went on my first meditation retreat. It was a 10-day Vipassana silent retreat, which my boyfriend calls “meditation boot camp”, because I couldn’t bring anything: no books, no journal, no phone, no computer, no facebook, no twitter. I couldn’t even talk or make eye contact with my fellow retreat goers.

“You’re [...]

Where Has All The Attention Gone?

I’m frantically typing, though I have been silently composing this post in my head for a few hours, and that’s exactly the thing I want to write about.

You see, I’m at this conference today. Because I have poor long-distance eyesight, I normally sit close to the stage. Today I was out chatting for too long [...]

PR, Branding, BP, Tragedy, and Comedy

I once came across a quote from Charlie Chaplin that said, “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.” I’m not really sure what he was exactly referring to, but I can kinda pretend I know what he’s talking about.

I just read this: Meet Leroy Stick, the man behind @BPGlobalPR [...]

The Wisdom of Roger Ebert

I’m sitting at Cafe Kaffa on 70th and 15th in Ballard, going through my notebook from February 2010, and found that I had written down this very awesome piece of wisdom from Roger Ebert in an Esquire interview:

“I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something [...]

One Leg at a Time: The New Chillout Manifesto

I’ve seen a couple Hotmail ads popping up around town and have managed to turn a blind eye, until recently when I got bombarded by them at SeaTac Airport. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, lucky you. You must not be the target audience or, “lifestyle fit” for “The New Busy”, according to [...]

I See You're Got The Twitter... Heh heh... I've Got The Twitter Too

A lot has been said, or tweeted, about Twitter. And, like Amazon(tm) reviews, it’s either all love or all hate, either OMG THE BEST THING SINCE THE WHEEL *AND* THE SLICE BREAD! Or, This, Too, Shall Pass.

For the record, I don’t have an altar for @twitter (or @biz, @ev, @dom). I also don’t have any [...]

Awareness, Technological Progress, and Social Progress

How much do I love this blog post, Post #1000: A Strawman for Everything, by Scott Berkun? I love it arms spread wide big!

His five things:

We need to ask more questions.
We confuse tech progress with social and personal progress.
Integrity is the proximity of your beliefs to your actions, and we need more integrity.
There is a downward [...]

This I Believe

I’ve been interviewing, and I’ve been asked open-ended and broad questions such as, “Tell me about yourself”, and “What do you want to do?”. When I was fresh out of college, I remember gushing, “I want to work with smart people!”; or identifying myself with my degrees, “I am a Business Major”, “I am an [...]

How Companies Hire

Or, How Do You Hire The First Person To Walk On The Moon?

I’ve noticed that there are two broad strategies companies use for hiring, and I have given myself the liberty to use them as predictors of how those companies or organizations view Growth and Innovation–yes, that I word that we all vie for. (I [...]

Before Sunset

One of my favorite movies is Before Sunset. For one of the Photoshop exercises, I created an imaginary poster for this movie.

I wanted to show the two lead characters, in fact the only ones, in a silhouette-ish layer to convey the idea that they have been living in the shadow of their encounters 9 years [...]