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Rudimentary, My Dear Watson.

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Today marks the end of my second full week of being self-employed. I have NO IDEA where those two weeks went. Well, actually, it’s possible they went 2 places: 1) getting ready for and then going to my friend’s wedding and 2) increasing my nerd-cred.

Wedding aside (story for another time), when it comes to nerd-cred I had a few learning curves to adjust to:

  • I moved to Linode – my first non-managed server. (with the indispensable help of kastner)
  • Being on Linode also means I need a pretty solid grasp of Unix commands. Going into this I was a master of cd, ls, pwd, and the occasional rm.
  • Using the Terminal so much more means that I also had to get a lot more comfortable with vim. Luckily I had a pretty good primer in vim at Etsy.
  • I moved to github – which I’ve now come to realize is the best. thing. ever.

I’m pretty sure I’ve leveled up in nerd-cred at least a few notches.

So that’s the elementary part. What’s this about “rudimentary”?

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Internet Reset

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our dock

Over 4th of July weekend, my friend Jimelle and I took off on a bit of an adventure. Or maybe it was more of anti-adventure. We hopped in her car and drove 10 hours up to the tippy top of Maine on a mission: to detox our internet/phone addictions. A real vacation.

We had 3 criteria for our vacation and set 2 rules for once we got there:

  • It had to be a cabin
  • It had to be on a lake
  • It had to be in Maine (we still don’t know how we ended up making Maine a requirement, but it worked out!)
  • No computers, phones, or any electronic devices that would connect us to the outside world
  • Hide any forms of time-keeping (clocks, watches, iPad clocks, etc)

For anyone who knows me, the idea of going for any period of time without my phone within arm’s reach and without any sort of internet connection is basically laughable. But I was determined. I knew I needed a bit of a detox. And detox I did.
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on to the next chapter

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I’m going to keep this one short and sweet:

A lot has happened in the last few weeks.

I’m no longer at Flickr. It still feels very surreal. Like I’m just on a vacation or a long weekend or just working from home. It’s kind of cool and it kind of sucks at the same time. I no longer work on the site that I’ve called my internet home for the last who knows how many years and I don’t get to work with and hang out with some of the coolest and smartest people I know.

But it’s given me time to think about what’s next: what I want to accomplish in the next few years and what I want to do in the longer term. Continue reading →

in the blink of an eye

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I know that Jake will make fun of me for this one because I claimed I wasn’t enough of a Tumblr Hipster to use pummelvision, but I sneakily queued it up a day or so ago and the results are in. For some reason the photos only start around 2007 even though my Flickr stream starts long before then. Despite that, though, it’s pretty cool to see it the last few years fly by. Enjoy:
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Twenty Four

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I’m a day late with my birthday post this year. Mostly because I’ve been avoiding it. 23 was a roller coaster of a year – incredible highs and very low lows. But tradition is tradition, so without further ado: my 9th annual birthday post: (holy heck, I’ve been writing this thing for 9 years already!?)

Where to begin?

Twenty-three was really all about settling into adulthood. I’ve now been out of college for about 1.5 years and I’ve lived on my own in San Francisco for just over a year of that. That fact alone has been the impetus for most of the changes in my life. I’ve spent this last year trying to carve out a new “home.” To be honest, “home” is still on the east coast for me, but more and more I’m building a life for myself here. It takes time. (Aside: Miley Cyrus’ “The Climb” just came on my iTunes random shuffle…cheeztasticly appropriate for this post).
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Recapping 2009: The 101 in 365 list

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Last year my roommate April and I set out to write a list of 101 things that we each wanted to accomplish in 2009. It’s hard to believe that today is already Day 365. SO much has happened this past year that I don’t even know where to begin, but I think it’s safe to say this was one of the most eventful years of my life so far.

Throughout the year I really enjoyed having my list to come back to when I was feeling bored, unproductive, or reflective. It was great to have a tangible set of things that I wanted to do that I could check off along the way. It’s why I created 101in365. I wanted to do it again, but even better this time around.

I rarely made a conscious effort to accomplish one of the items on the list. I generally just let life happen and along the way hope to tick off as many as I could. I’m disappointed that I couldn’t finish a few of them but overall I’m happy with what I was able to accomplish this year. So, without further ado, the list:
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Twenty-Three

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I’ve majorly slacked off on blogging these last few weeks, but I promise I have good reason. Life has been going in all sorts of directions that I never would have expected. I would have been remiss, though, if I didn’t take the time to come back here to write my 8th annual birthday post.

I turned 23 today. It was different than any birthday I’ve had in the past. I wasn’t at home. I wasn’t with my friends. I wasn’t cramming for and then taking an Econ exam. I wasn’t counting down the hours until Fall Break or Columbus Day weekend. It actually kind of snuck up on me this year. Like I said, it’s been a crazy last few weeks!

I knew 22 was going to be an incredibly eventful year for me. What I couldn’t have known, however, was just how amazing this year would turn out to be.

I’ve experienced things and had opportunities I couldn’t have dreamed of this time last year. I survived my last year of college, pushed myself to succeed in classes that I thought I was guaranteed to fail, spent countless hours turning the Photo department into something we could be proud of, made some amazing friends, and graduated from college. Those were all pretty predictable, sure, but then there were the things that made this year REALLY cool: I had photos published in the New York Times, backpacked around Europe for 6 weeks, tried things that still shock me – like paragliding in the Swiss Alps. I moved to San Francisco, started a job that is turning out to be exactly what I wanted, and to top it all off, I spent the last week on my first business trip – to Taiwan!

Those are just the things I can enumerate. There are the things you can’t count on your fingers like the friends I’ve made, the nights out with those friends that I’ll remember forever, the days where everything felt like it was going just perfectly. Sure there were some bad days here or there, but why dwell on that? I learned a lot and grew even more and that’s really all you can ask for. Twenty-two was a great year and I hope that 23 will bring even just a few of those amazing experiences.

I’ve been incredibly lucky this past year and I want to thank those of you who were along for the ride with me. My friends mean the world to me and I hope you all know that. Here’s to another great year of friendship, adventures, trials and tribulations, but most of all – happiness.