Tag / #anxiety
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The Problem with #WINNING
I went to a children’s robotics competition built around LEGO Mindstorms technology. Mindstorms is LEGO’s computer platform for using its bricks to build working robots. The organizer was FIRST (For Inspiration and…
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The Darkness is Editing
Human beings can turn anything into an artform, even our demons. Like those days when you procrastinate. Let’s say you specifically set aside a day for getting an important project done. You…
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Rebuild the Resume, LinkedIn
Each week, my writing course The Interactive Voice reevaluates classic writing forms, contrasts newer online models, and critiques specific student examples. In the third week, we look at avatars, or written and…
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Smartphones Don’t Create Our Anxiety
Some sentences just stick with you. I never forgot the following quote from an assigned reading in college. Years later, I would discover the author of the quote, Columbia University Professor Jacques…
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We Think in Drafts
Every summer for most of my life, my father’s side of the family held their reunions at a lake cabin in New Hampshire owned by his first cousin. I’ve always called this…
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