Links I Love: February 17, 2019
Want to stay in bed longer? Here’s what I’ve been loving, laughing at, and getting intrigued by all week long. Now cozy up with your laptop/tablet and enjoy :) CAREER / BUSINESS Five Questions To Ask Your Boss When They Offer To Help Your Career. (Forbes) Student Debt Is Dragging A Whole Generation Down. (BuzzFeed) Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work?. (New York Times) The #1 Leadership Lesson from a Sports Dynasty. (Friday Forward) My (Imagined) Career And Life Coaching Session With Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (Forbes) How Much of Your Work Is Really Busywork? Six Ways to Tell, and What to Do About It. (Laura Stack) What PwC Learned from Its Policy of Flexible Work for Everyone. (Harvard Business Journal) Don't turn a blind eye to robot bias. (LinkedIn) Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters. (New York Times) Women act more like men when they have to ask women for money. (Quartz) The Impossibility of Being a Likeable Female Politician. (Harper's Bazaar) Trump vs. Ocasio-Cortez: Who Will Win the Internet?. (New York Times) Implicit Gender Bias in Startup Funding. (Feld Thoughts) PRODUCTIVITY / … [Continue reading]
What I Read in January 2019
Only three books read in January, which means I'm not getting my year of reading off to a good start. However, I was sick this weekend and caught up on a lot of reading, so hopefully February will be better. I think I may just need to accept that with my other priorities, reading 100 books in a year may not be realistic for me anymore, and that's okay. 5 stars: The Identicals, by Elin Hilderbrand: Loved this light and fun novel! At first I identified with Tabitha more than Harper, but Hilderbrand did a great job making them both twins empathetic until I was rooting for both of them. Great way to kick off the new reading year. 4 stars: An Anonymous Girl, by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen: This was an engaging thriller with some twists and turns I didn't expect - I ended up staying up late to read it in two nights. However, I miss Sarah Pekkanen's non-thriller books, which I thought were superb. Any book recommendations for me? Follow me here on Goodreads to keep up with what I’m reading in real time. … [Continue reading]
Links I Love: February 10, 2019
Want to stay in bed longer? Here’s what I’ve been loving, laughing at, and getting intrigued by all week long. Now cozy up with your laptop/tablet and enjoy :) CAREER / BUSINESS How To Develop An Authentic Executive Presence Through Self-Awareness. (Forbes) The Death of the Sick Day. (New York Times) Startups and Legacy Brands Are Making Healthcare More Personal. (Skift) Return of the Razr—With a Foldable Screen and $1,500 Price. (Wall Street Journal) Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL. (Wired) How to Make a Millennial Feel Cozy in Just One Beverage. (New York Times) PRODUCTIVITY / SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Manage the Clock. (Feld Thoughts) 25 Super Tiny Resolution Ideas You Could Actually Keep. (Yes and Yes) The Reflective Practitioner: Five Ways Self-Reflection Can Improve Your Productivity. (Laura Stack) How to Listen Like a Hostage Negotiator. (Lifehacker) Try Reddit's Best Tips for Reading More Books. (Lifehacker) 4 hacks to remember any and all facts. (Well & Good NYC) Similar: Train Your Brain Like a Memory Champion. (New York Times) Hey sweetie pie, there’s now science to support using pet names. (Well & … [Continue reading]
Weekend Recap: Winter Culinary Weekend
Recap of January 25-28. This weekend was not a great one for me, which was a real disappointment because I had very high hopes. It was Beaver Creek Winter Culinary Weekend, an event I thoroughly enjoyed last year. This year though, the format was quite a bit different, and I really didn't like it as much :( Thursday night, I went to bed late and then had major insomnia. I kept waking up and thinking about some work that I should have done before the end of the day but had left until the morning. Every time I woke up, I would think about it, and then go back to sleep. But in the morning, I wished I had just gotten up and knocked it out so I could have slept the rest of the night! That certainly didn't set me up for success with the weekend. When work wrapped up on Friday, I headed out to the mountains. I've started learning that while Saturday morning traffic is bad, Friday night traffic is no picnic either; unfortunately, I wasn't able to make a break for it early in the afternoon like I would have liked. I was originally planning to meet Heather and Kirk for a taco festival in Vail, but by the time I got to Vail, they had been there a while and were pretty cold (since it … [Continue reading]
