Developing a Narrative and Growing a Community
One of the coolest things that I do every week is have lunch or coffee with someone interesting or influential in Austin, Texas. I’ve been meeting and developing relationships with all sorts of really awesome Austinites for the past few months, so I decided to start posting about the meetings on my blog. You’ll read [...]
Saturday afternoon, I volunteered as a “production assistant” for We Are Austin Tech. My job was to record timestamps for each interview question and transcribe the answers. I took about 15 pages of notes over the course of the afternoon, and got to listen to interviews from some amazing entrepreneurs that I admire for how they live [...]
I am rebranding my blog right now. I started talking to designers and WordPress developers 2 weeks ago so I could get a logo and customize my theme. I’ve been mostly flying by the seat of my pants, figuring out the brand as I go, but it’s time for me to formalize my brand, my focus, [...]
“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose one’s self.” Soren Kierkegaard, the Danish Existential Philosopher and Theologian said that. I love Keirkegaard’s work because he explores our emotion and choice when we as people face big life decisions. “Facing a big life decision” is a fancy way of [...]
Last week, I got so much positive response from my post, Coming Clean, where I talked about having Rheumatoid Arthritis. The positive response to such a personal story made me consider being that open regularly in this blog. That post received 1,000 unique hits because the Arthritis Foundation shared it on their Facebook page and their Twitter stream. Prior to that moment, I [...]
[Update: I want to greet all the readers from the Arthritis Foundation. After @Arthritis_Org tweeted this post today, site visits have increased more than I could have expected. Thanks, you guys, for stopping by to read. We're all in this together, and I'm glad to share my story with you all. Thank you for being [...]
