One of my slides in my LexThink presentation shows my Data Points stack in Evernote. A few people asked about the one labeled Music, the one labeled Lyrics, and what they mean. Good question. The one labeled Music has to…
Category: Personal Big Data Project
Yes. Learning. A pattern reared itself while I was working on my LexThink presentation: backdoor compliments, more commonly known as insults. Like being told you were added to the speaking roster because you are female. What, if anything, you had…
I was looking forward to blending into the background, like normal, at LexThink. There’s a line about people planning and God laughing that comes to mind, and I’d wager He’s ROFL at this. I’m now presenting. Armed with 20 slides…
I took calculus in college, and if not for my kickass professor, I would have failed. There wasn’t a question of intelligence. There wasn’t a question of being able to do the work. I performed well on homework and quizzes,…
Jessica Bruder’s piece in INC, “The Psychological Price of Entrepeuership,” struck a nerve with me when she said: But many of those entrepreneurs, like Smith, harbor secret demons: Before they made it big, they struggled through moments of near-debilitating anxiety…
There is a Wikipedia entry for “inner critic,” defined as: “a concept used in popular psychology to refer to a subpersonality – universally present in at least some form[1] – that judges and demeans a person.” Sounds familiar, no? Of…
In my cursory overview of my personal “big data” project, I mention a desire to gain a better understanding of what, exactly, made relocating more difficult than I anticipated. Words are my stock in trade, so I started collecting life…