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This blog is my "side piece" -- a place to put down my thoughts when I'm not taking care of the other parts of my life. Sometimes I'll talk about my favorite products, while other times a social issue will take up space here. This is a living document of opinions, analyses, and recommendations. My hope is that it will be useful in some capacity, whether that's providing some levity or helpful knowledge.

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Productivity hacks for working from home

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  Get out of your pajamas and into an actual outfit, but nothing with a zipper, button or collar. Turn on the TV, sit in front of it with your laptop and all your resources and apps open. Write one sentence per hour. Panic after 4 hours, wondering why you only have a paragraph’s worth of work. Take regular breaks -- a quick walk around the block, work out, throw a load of laundry in while you spiral out of control on Amazon. Lean into the urgency of finding the perfect dish drying rack to replace the current one that’s working perfectly fine. Put your phone on “do not disturb.” Place it right next to your hand. Check it often to make sure you’re not missing any notifications due to the “do not disturb.” Find a good playlist for studying or focused work. Spiral into the sadness and beauty of life as you become overwhelmed by the lyrics and dramatic crescendos of the songs. Get up and stretch, which will inspire you to research free workout apps for the next hour.  Go to t...
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Sharenting: You might not "like" the effects

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For those who came of age before the internet, the right to be forgotten was an unrecognized privilege. But now that the possibility of an analog childhood has all but been erased, the question of how to reconcile a parent’s right to share content about their children online with a child’s right to develop their own digital identity has raised the eyebrows of advocates for child privacy. Parents should avoid posting photos and videos of their children until they reach the “digital age of consent,” which is currently at age 13. However, I support the proposal that the age should be raised to 16 years old, per the PROTECT (Kids) Act that has been introduced to Congress. While parents have a right to freedom of speech and posts of their children are presumably well-intentioned, this point-of-view does not consider the long-term, psychological and societal effects of “sharenting.”  What happens to a child when they live under the expectation that their lives are tracked and documented ...
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A mote of dust

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“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” — Carl Sagan Photo by  Max McKinnon  on  Unsplash
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