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Two different ways of looking at your career
I get uncomfortable when people ask me what my career goals are. I guess I consider the thought of a (single) career too linear, and frankly, I don’t really know what I want to do next. I’m lucky enough to have gotten pretty good at both being useful and learning new things, so I’m not…
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Running along the Vltava River in Prague
Running while traveling is one of the best ways to get comfortable in a new place. This past week I was lucky enough to be in Prague and went on a few runs along the Vlatava river. Here are a few photos from my morning jogs.
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May 2023 Monthly Review
May highlights include hiking Ben Venue, volunteering at my kid’s school running club, celebrating my daughter Vivian’s birthday (she had quite a birthday list), re-starting The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, reading The Wayfinders, and changing my morning schedule. The month felt like it flew by, and I didn’t fit in any drawing,…
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Jessie Ware, Alfa Mist, and more of my favorite albums from May 2023
I’ve got a disco dance-pop record, a 13-minute hip-hop mixtape, and another album that’s mostly in Spanish, all on my list for May. Things might feel a bit, well, scattered, but there is beauty in all this mess. Here are my favorite albums (new and old) from May 2023.
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The common hawthorn and other running notes
A few notes related to running that I’m thinking about this week.
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Reading doesn’t have to be so serious
I recently finished reading Heat 2, the sequel/prequel novel to the classic 1995 Michael Mann film starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Val Kilmer. It’s classic cops and robbers: lots of gun fights, espionage, double-crossing, just like the movie. I just read it for fun, nothing else. Didn’t learn a thing, just enjoyed myself.…
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Two cakes and a YouTube channel (birthday list update)
My daughter’s birthday is coming up, and her birthday list, similar to last year’s, is pretty great.
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Back to Hyrule this summer
I have a confession to make: I never finished the last Legend of Zelda game, Breath of the Wild. I loved playing it, and would tell anyone I met that it is one of the greatest games ever, but I guess I got sidetracked somehow. In my defense, Breath of the Wild (or BOTW as…
Writing and drawings by Nick.
