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How to (not) be creative
I learned something over the past couple of weeks: bring creative without rules or defined outcomes is really hard.
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Change or acceptance?
The adage goes that we have to accept the things we can’t change.
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Travel perfection pressure
Are you old enough to remember what vacations were like before social media?
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There is no finish line
No, this isn’t another post about running! As I type this, I’m waiting to leave for the airport to head to Barcelona, where I’ll be giving a talk about…
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Start before you're ready
1/2 marathon update!
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Lessons from training for a hard thing
Sometime last fall I got it into my head that I could run a half marathon (the longest I’d ever run previously was 10K).
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Gratitude gone wrong
A re-post from 2023
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Perfectly Cromulent
Perfectly Cromulent
A newsletter sharing perfectly cromulent essays about advice—giving it, taking it, trashing it—from a self-help optimist in a pessimist's world.
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