Tag: Life
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The do’s and don’ts of online dating, from a newlywed.
Almost 2 years ago now I wrote a humorous (well, I thought it was funny…) blog post on taking a data-driven approach to dating. In that post I promised to write a follow-up if I had success. Since I got married in July, I guess it’s about time I keep that promise! So here’s a…
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Career advice for my younger self
2008’s The Incredible Hulk is – by far – the weakest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it has a few good lines. One of them is when the antagonist declares to General Ross that if he could take the knowledge and skills he has as a forty year old and put that into…
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Doing the Math on Online Dating
Online dating can be frustrating with an endless string of people who just… aren’t quite right. So I sat down and did the math to find my 1 in 15 million.
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Culture and Opportunity
I’m kind of a radical. I say “kind of” because I’m fairly sure that at 32 my days of living in treesits and getting teargassed at endless pointless protests that don’t change anything are pretty much over. But I learned a lot along the way and these days I tend to see those lessons or…
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Dollars and Sense
The tech startup world, as anyone who’s spent time in it knows, is a weird place. It’s a strange little bubble universe that’s absolutely awash in cash while the rest of the economy struggles and stumbles along, but the people you might expect to be raking in the cash usually aren’t. Case in point –…
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Are you driving like a Jerk?
A quick quiz: Do you consistently tailgate people and use your brights to blind and intimidate them to force them out of your way? Do you change lanes without signalling and make a habit of cutting people off in traffic? Have you ever crushed and mangled a motorcyclist by swerving into him or her or…