#resilience
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- Entries
- 61 total
- Writing
- 35
- Book notes
- 26
- Publications
- 0
Writing
2025
- Dec 10, 2025 What Does It Mean to Be a Live Human Signpost?
A reflection on Vincent Harding's idea of the live human signpost and the quiet people who help others keep moving.
- Nov 1, 2025 The Difficulty of Hope Right Now
A reflection on holding onto hope when things feel hard.
- Mar 25, 2025 Privacy Fatigue Managing Digital Burnout in a Hyper-Connected World
Why constant privacy management can wear people down online.
- Mar 11, 2025 Digital Resilience Staying Strong in a Digital World
How to stay steady when digital systems fail, overload us, or expose us to risk.
2024
- May 18, 2024 Transitioning from Turning on Each Other to Turning Towards Each Other
How empathy helps shift conflict toward connection.
- Apr 23, 2024 The Art of Serial Focusing - Mastering One Thing at a Time
Why focusing on one task at a time can reduce stress and improve productivity.
2022
- Feb 2, 2022 Think Of Your Life In Chunks
Why long-term thinking works better when you break life into chunks.
2021
- Apr 1, 2021 The “How” of Teaching Will Forever Change…We Now Need to Change the “Why”
Why 'back to normal' may not be the right goal after COVID.
- Mar 4, 2021 Transform a Chore Into a Choice
How to turn obligation into agency by reframing a chore as a choice.
- Mar 2, 2021 Finding Value in Life
How to notice value and meaning in everyday life.
- Feb 17, 2021 Diamonds and Glass
How diamonds and glass illustrate pressure, beauty, and strength.
- Jan 22, 2021 Cognitive Bias & The Sunk Cost Fallacy
A simple look at sunk costs and the difficulty of starting over.
- Jan 18, 2021 Make Time for Self-Care
A brief case for self-care as a practice that supports mental, emotional, and physical health.
- Jan 8, 2021 Luck, Preparation, and Opportunity
A reflection on how preparation and opportunity shape what we call luck.
2020
- Dec 8, 2020 Sharpen Your Saw
Why sharpening your saw means protecting time to renew yourself.
- Nov 24, 2020 Little things add up to big things
How small habits add up to big changes over time.
- Nov 16, 2020 Stop overscheduling
Why too much on your calendar can lead to burnout.
- Nov 9, 2020 Are you busy or productive?
A quick check on whether you're busy or actually productive.
- Oct 26, 2020 Seeing the change in the world
How our beliefs shape the way we see change in the world.
- Oct 20, 2020 Fail Hard
Why failure can be a useful part of ambitious goal-setting.
- Oct 16, 2020 Protect Your Center
Why protecting your center matters when opportunities pull you outward.
- Oct 14, 2020 The Doorway Effect
Why the doorway effect makes us forget what we meant to do.
- Oct 6, 2020 Sitting Between Life and Death
How digital life reshapes grief, memory, and the spaces between life and death.
- Oct 1, 2020 What’s on the other side of failure? Nothing
A reminder that failure is often just part of learning to play.
- Sep 30, 2020 Value In Finishing
Why finishing matters more than starting when work gets hard.
- Sep 25, 2020 On Living Well
A reflection on living well instead of just living longer.
- Sep 22, 2020 Stop Waiting for “What’s Next”
Why waiting for what's next can keep you from actually living.
- Sep 16, 2020 Re-Examining My Social Signals
A reflection on stepping back from social signals for a month.
2018
- Apr 12, 2018 Moving beyond survival
A reflection on awareness, contemplation, and moving beyond survival.
- Jan 31, 2018 Developing resilience and preparing for adversity
How resilience and adversity shape growth, learning, and recovery.
2017
- Nov 16, 2017 Goals, Strategies, Objectives, & Tactics
A simple framework for turning a plan into goals, strategies, objectives, and tactics.
- Nov 9, 2017 Control Your Controllables
Why focusing on controllables can reduce stress and improve flow.
2015
- Sep 22, 2015 The 30 Day Challenge
As humans, we regularly
- Jun 30, 2015 Continued Thoughts on Getting Things Done with Kanban and Trello
Continued reflections on Trello, Kanban, and getting things done.
- Feb 27, 2015 What Can We Learn From Dreams?
A personal reflection on dreams, grief, memory, and the way old losses continue to shape the stories we tell about ourselves.
Book notes
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- 2025 The Disengaged Teen
Jenny Anderson, Rebecca Winthrop
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- 2024 The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
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- 2022 The Gifts of Imperfection
Brené Brown
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- 2021 Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
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- 2020 Wool
Hugh Howey
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- 2019 The Self-Driven Child
William Stixrud, Ned Johnson
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- 2018 Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
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- 2018 Artemis
Andy Weir
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- 2017 Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
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- 2017 When Violence is the Answer
Tim Larkin
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- 2017 Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life
Gary John Bishop
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- 2017 New York 2140
Kim Stanley Robinson
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- 2016 How to stop worrying & start living
Dale Carnegie
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- 2015 SuperBetter
Jane McGonigal
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- 2015 The Blade Itself
Joe Abercrombie
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- 2015 The End of All Things
John Scalzi
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- 2015 Armada
Ernest Cline
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- 2015 Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
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- 2014 The Martian
Andy Weir
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- 2013 Daring Greatly
Brené Brown
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- 2011 The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
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- 2010 Switch
Chip Heath, Dan Heath
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- 2009 Why Don't Students Like School?
Daniel T. Willingham
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- 2007 The Road
Cormac McCarthy