A Collection of NYC Timelapses
Via Mindrelic on Vimeo.
Holy Crap! Its April…
So the first quarter of the year has flown by super fast (post graduation). Work has been hectic, definitely keeping me busy, complete with a little internal restructuring and enough stress to pass around.
Storms swept through the entire eastern region of North Carolina causing significant damage over the weekend. This is most storm related damage that I’ve ever seen in person. Here’s a little taste (just one of 20+ tornados in the storm):
Luckily, we were out of town. See photos of the damage here.
For Ourselves
“Quite frankly, I don’t want to live for other people’s approval. I know what I’m good at, what I have to offer other people, and what I need to improve upon.”
I’m not exactly sure when I became aware of Whitney Hess. I became aware of her a year or two ago through her work on various projects at Happy Cog. Regardless, few people have articulated so clearly so many of my beliefs about the web. You definitely need to jump over and read this post in its entirety, but here’s a small portion:
Over the years I have occasionally found myself writing posts because I knew they would get attention, not because I particularly cared about them. I wanted to ensure that I stayed top of mind, for the health of my business, but also for the health of my ego.
Quite frankly, I don’t want to live for other people’s approval. I know what I’m good at, what I have to offer other people, and what I need to improve upon. Being showered with praise temporarily muddles all of that. It gets you to start believing you’re good at things you really have no business doing. And when the buzz dies down, you realize no one has the power to change how you feel about yourself.
And also…
I want to get back to what I was trying to do here in the first place: get better. Not seem better, not feel better, but actually be better. Learn more. Share more. Do more. Help more.
Read more here.
Why Wasn’t I Consulted?
“The web is not, despite the desires of so many, a publishing medium. The web is a customer service medium. ‘Intense moderation’ in a customer service medium is what ‘editing’ was for publishing.”
From Paul Ford’s The Web Is a Customer Service Medium. It will leave you wondering why you weren’t consulted. Via Anil Dash.
Hey There Carmela
Today, we brought home a new playmate for Castor (and a new friend to sit in my lap). She’s a 7 year old Tabby named Carmela who was left with the adoption agency when her owner was relocating to Europe for his job.
Carmela sitting on my lap shortly after we brought her home.
I highly recommend Second Chance Pet Adoptions for anyone looking for a new cat or dog in the Raleigh-Durham area. We also adopted Castor from Second Chance. I’m sure I’ll have many (much better) photos of Carmela to come. I’ll post them on my Flickr.
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