When you move to a new place, you inevitably are meeting new people and during each interaction you try to size each other up for friendship. Not even in a judgmental way, but you’re just trying to figure out what’s in the middle of your Venn diagram so that you have something to talk about or…
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5: Questions I like to ask people I meet
When I lived in Denver and worked in a co-working space for a tech recruiting company: it was Bro City. The other companies entered around action sports or had a passion for them. For a while, besides my dear friend Matt, I didn’t feel like I would meet anyone who could relate to me. Sounds…
Jacklynn by the numbers, 2015-2016
Let’s see what 2016 brings! (In order to not offend all designers everywhere, I just want to add the note that I know this is bad design. I just stretched a bunch of words & numbers to fit into even lines. I know better, you know better, but here it is.)
5: podcasts I listen to
I know I haven’t posted in a while and I have a backlog of things to to write about, but here’s a post for a quick win! With my miserable commute I’ve been able to carve out time to listen to other podcasts besides This American Life. They are totally mainstream, but I thought I might as…
Books to read in 2016
First, let’s set some context. A couple of weeks ago Grant sent me a kind of alarming article, The Tail End, breaking down our lives into moments and the activities we get in them. And so on, into how many winter’s we’ll have in our life, how many times we’ll go to the beach, how…
What I know now // 027
‘Close the gap’ interactive data visualization Short-but-sweet this month(ish).
Before Sunrise & Before Sunset.
Before Sunrise taps into what appears to be a universal dream of traveling to a foreign place, meeting a dashing stranger, and falling in love. So maybe that makes this movie a cliché. Maybe I was just in the mood for exactly this kind of movie—but I just watched Brooklyn and thought it was lukewarm, so…
“Famous” by Naomi Shihab Nye
The river is famous to the fish. The loud voice is famous to silence, which knew it would inherit the earth before anybody said so. The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds watching him from the birdhouse. The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek. The idea you carry close to…
5+5 Favorite movies
Someone recently asked me what my top ten favorite movies are. Thought I’d share. These are the ones that I come to mind, with the caveat that I rarely watch a movie several times. In a vague order: My Fair Lady. Maybe the movie I’ve seen the most because I have a large soft spot of musicals…
PHAMETRICS // 37
Alex took a picture of me at Bernal Park. As I told him, silhouette is my best angle. November came and went and 2016 is rapidly following.