Thinking about my own growth and helping grow folks around me I've boiled my advice down to
"If you're only receiving good feedback, you're not receiving good feedback" (same goes for giving)
Learn how to ask for and give meaningful feedback that'll nurture growth
When your 6 year old son teaches the family to play a live action #AmongUs and you turn the corner to see your wife scurrying away from your "dead" 4 year old you start to wonder who you married
My wife bought Oreo thins. Is she potentially a terrorist? Is this an early sign of dementia? Do I call a doctor? I'm not sure how to react.
Feel like such an adult. Sitting in my first school board meeting. These things always this wild, or is it only when talking about #MaskMandates
Think my high school English teacher ever went to the library to verify any of those references he made me diligently add in whatever format?
What a disturbing and eye opening revelation. Though not surprising when one thinks about it.
We look for reason to police those we determine arbitrarily need policing
The danger around us, is the danger we create and perpetuate
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So many athletes get a signature shoe. That when they know they've made it. I may not be THE BEST, but I wouldn't mind my own line of #dadbod Sandles.
Probably @Crocs , but I could see @Nike ,@Reebok or @BIRKENSTOCKUSA competing for my endorsement
Ever gone down any of the conspiracy theory, alternative thinking, "woke" rabbit holes and wondered, even for a split second, if maybe you truly are a sheep?
It's gotta be exhausting believing and defending something that is crazy to 95% of the population
Ever see anyone eat a cucumber like it's a banana? Me either. Why not? It would be disturbing, right? But why?
If y'all need something to read / follow for the next 24 (-5 waffle) hours, may I suggest this
Who was the first "first".
Like, who decided it was good to immediately reply to something with one word that added nothing. I feel like if we find that person and the people that enabled them, we'll find the root of a lot of our internet etiquette problems
Anyone else find their cynicism growing when the see headlines about rich and powerful folks being investigated?
Things I thought I'd automatically get better at just by being an adult
1. Being serious
2. Learning new things
3. Anything mechanical
4. Using Super glue without gluing myself to stuff
5. Folding fitted sheets / sleeping bags / tents
Office buildings with a market or cafeteria in them where many employees frequent to grab lunch need to bring back pneumatic tubes for delivery.
Sammich is ready....schwoooolp. sucked up to the 6th floor.
(Getting away from desk is nice though)
Chatting with a client today and we switched to the topic of kids and he said something that hit me:
"Being independent doesn't mean being alone"
Giving someone the ability to make a decision and DO, doesn't mean that you have to abandon them
I learned more in the 6 minutes it took me to read this than I have in a long time
How our tax system is fundamentally broken and WHY
I'm sure there's other sides to this as it can't be this cut and dry, but this read well and educated me







