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A Sabbatical, Some Learnings, and a Mantra

January 26, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedLeave a comment

I work at Automattic, and one of the incredible perks we get is a three-month, paid sabbatical after five years (we’re hiring). This is as awesome as it sounds. And it was a personal turning point for me. Here’s the interesting thing though. It wasn’t the sabbatical itself, it was the leadup to the sabbatical.… Continue reading A Sabbatical, Some Learnings, and a Mantra

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Mindfulness and Self-Reflection

November 26, 2019January 26, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedLeave a comment

The other day I wrote about stoicism and control. While I was reading about stoicism I was also learning about mindfulness, and I found some really interesting overlapping ideas. In that post I had written; We control our reaction to others. We control how we feel about the world around us. We control whether we… Continue reading Mindfulness and Self-Reflection

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Stoicism and Control

November 24, 2019January 26, 2020 Posted in Uncategorized4 Comments

In one sense, we are powerless. We cannot control anything external to us. Oh sure, we can take our little brother’s hand and smack him in the face, saying “stop hitting yourself.” This is nothing. We cannot control who our brother is. We cannot make a person evolve. We cannot make them love us. We… Continue reading Stoicism and Control

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