Before I started reading Albert Laszlo-Barabasi's book on networks, I read some reviews that commented both on its usefulness and its repetition of the same key ideas. Reviews like this one also mention, albeit more emphatically than I would, the excessive anecdotes prefacing every major point his book makes. While this review and my reading only cover… Continue reading Linked, Ch 1-9
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Aim for the Heart, Ch. 13: Tell the Story Online
This week's reading was a chapter out of a great resource that I've actually used in a previous class for this program. Like Krug, Tompkins is direct and gives simple advice with simple reasoning: every lesson is themed to maximize your content's appeal to a reader. This chapter focused mainly on the advantage of interaction… Continue reading Aim for the Heart, Ch. 13: Tell the Story Online
Don’t Make Me Think, Steve Krug
In probably the most straightforward and useful textbook I've been assigned, Steve Krug gives simple techniques for creating websites that enhance user experience without complicated way finding or overly elaborate marketing schemes. By sticking to the idea in the title, Krug hones in on a simplistic principle that can be applied almost anywhere: if your… Continue reading Don’t Make Me Think, Steve Krug
Now we say good night
I shake my head back and forth, I shake away the idea that this is actually what I am walking up to right now. I am in disbelief. I knew almost nothing of this man but if I am to walk away knowing what I saw of his death, I know that he was loved and… Continue reading Now we say good night
On being honest with yourself
There are so many moving parts to the relationships we build. (It honestly feels like fishing out splinters when I think of the time we spent circling each other. We failed each other so fantastically. If I’m honest with myself about the entire timeline of what built me to be the person that met you,… Continue reading On being honest with yourself
On the cornerstone
Let’s talk about mental health. My anxiety manifests sometimes as uncontrollable rage, sometimes as a boulder sitting on my chest, reminding me of all the bad in all the corners of the world. It is triggered by many things I haven’t even figured out yet. It is chronic and overwhelming at times, but I also… Continue reading On the cornerstone
On the things you cannot change
I still feel you like a wound in my throat It is probably a lump A distraction A list of all the things I would explain to you if it would ever matter. Because it doesn’t, this is just a lump. I am sick with a sadness that feels like grief for something I hadn’t… Continue reading On the things you cannot change
On modernism
My family fights against the hell in the afterlife While throwing kindling on what we’ve built here
Coming and Going in Athens
I just returned from a week long adventure with some babes to Greece! Namely we stayed in Athens and visited a few islands, and this will be brief, but there were some major convenience highlights for me that I think anyone traveling to Athens should know about. I’d like to post again about this trip,… Continue reading Coming and Going in Athens
Traveling young and unstoppable
It’s booked! My September girls’ getaway is booked and I am anxiously awaiting the day we arrive to our little rented apartment in Athens until reality calls us back. Planning this trip has also made me look back through my other travel experiences and made me realize that this is what I know, this is… Continue reading Traveling young and unstoppable
Garbanzo Bae 