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line sketch night

3/29/2018

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ate lunch on market street

3/29/2018

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brunch butters

3/28/2018

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took my new pen outside

3/27/2018

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finally bought a pen

3/25/2018

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heart brain processing loop

3/24/2018

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lazy march

3/22/2018

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love poem

3/22/2018

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noticing my routes

3/21/2018

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grocery store decisions that i make poorly
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wilting flowers, rainy day

3/21/2018

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i like buying flowers every week, but i'm not as good at throwing them out
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morning view & coffee

3/19/2018

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bay window in my apartment
i woke up with this idea that the word 'apartment' sounds so similar to 'allotment.' i've spent a lot of time looking out these windows, and i have to say, i really love my allotment. 
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sick today

3/18/2018

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mandala
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elly says happy saturday

3/17/2018

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elephant teapot i bought at a winery
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tracing during Broad City

3/15/2018

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Season 4. is. so. good.
​​http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1338790/Chinese-dragon-vase-sells-5m-nearly-800-times-estimate.html
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decision tree of life

3/15/2018

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10 minute line sketch

3/15/2018

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day off

3/14/2018

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trading perspectives

3/13/2018

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balancing the call of 'impostor syndrome' with the reality that we are all impostors

3/13/2018

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as i've been widening my network in SF over the past year, i've heard a repeat note on my personality: that i don't have enough confidence. 

i struggle with this feedback, because, mostly, I get it. professional confidence is a thing. i'm ten years into my career, and i'm not a complete idiot. i've worked at some of those "go-getter" type companies where people describe themselves with words like "thought leader" and "proactive" (don't get me started on 'empathy' and 'assuming good intent'-- that for another day). it's a big part of my work to make people feel assured that i'm completing my work in a professional way. this is what people mean, i think, when they talk about confidence. and i have a lot of methods to make people feel assured. documenting my projects, making my assumptions and my work reproducible and defensible-- these are core aspects of my profession. i understand, in my head and through my experience, that it raises more questions than it answers for a personal to truly "lack confidence" in their professional work. and despite the processes i've learned and developed, i understand that i don't always project that confidence that makes people feel assured.

but something about this feedback just doesn't sit right with me. i'm an analyst, and my job is to create frameworks that help guide decisions. it's often extremely "gray area" subjective work that needs to be defensible, as if it were objective. so my 'bottom line' is often, "Can we make a decision based on this information?" Being able to get an analysis to the realm of directing practical decisionmaking is really important. "good enough to make the next decision" is often the goal of my work.


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when to follow rules

3/12/2018

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i've been thinking about how useful rules can be. following recipes, dress codes, behavioral guidelines, traffic laws. great things that make life easier. but when does it make sense to break rules, or ignore them? 
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