September 2010 Archive

September 21, 2010 » Creating Space and Setting Boundaries

The past year has been mentally and emotionally exhausting, both in my professional and personal life. I’m pretty self-aware, and I’m good at making adjustments on the fly, but this past year really pushed me to the edge, and the space and people around me were exacerbating the situation. So I started making some structural [...]

September 9, 2010 » My Quest to Learn Korean

설악산, November 2002. I’m admiring the grilled sardines and steamed mussels and sea snails outside of Sanmaeul Restaurant, a wonderful, family-run hole-in-the-wall. They ended up feeding us for our entire stay in 설악산. Also note my sweet, red hat. I’m generally good at learning, but I have a few nasty Achilles’ heels. My biggest one [...]

September 8, 2010 » Tiger Woods: Model Learner

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. I know nothing about Tiger Woods as a person. Well, that’s not entirely true. I actually know much more than I want to know. But that’s not what this is about. This is about learning. And when it comes to his craft, Tiger Woods is the model learner. He became a [...]

September 7, 2010 » Web Site Redesigned!

My personal web site has been badly in need of a refresher for years now. I played with elements of a redesign a few years ago, but the bigger challenge was migrating the content, and the longer I waited, the more technical debt I accumulated. This was a problem, as I’m a notorious yak shaver. [...]