Hacker. Human.
via Brené Brown:
Trust is built in very small moments.
Isn’t that true? Sometimes we believe that we have to courageously (and sometimes violently) trust someone, almost blindly, to move things forward but I think the most impactful and long-lasting ways of building trust come over time in small, bite-sized chunks.
San Francisco-based photographer Timothy Archibald began photographing his autistic 5-year-old son Elijah as a way of dealing with the young boy’s diagnosis.
Noticing how his son behaved, different from other kids, and knowing that as a parent he was desperately eager to raise his child as best as he could, he felt the need to pour his frustrations into this portrait project titled Echolilia.
Here are some of the results:
I’m following Brett Trapp’s story as he shares it, one post at a time. Well, actually, I’m catching up on it to be truthful but I’m “in” now. It’s amazing.
There are secret struggles and then… there are secret struggles. The pain and anguish and guilt and shame of having to keep it to oneself for so many years…
Another great piece on how writing can make you healthier:
After many more studies, with many thousands of participants — children and the elderly, students and professionals, healthy and ill — we can say with confidence that showing up and applying words to emotions is a tremendously helpful way to deal with stress, anxiety, and loss.
I can’t share enough how impactful the daily exercise of writing has been for me.
I downloaded 3 of the new Facebook apps yesterday in an attempt to understand that world a bit better.
For many of you this might come as a shock because, one, I haven’t downloaded these previously but that’s because I’m not actually a super-user of Facebook (or even a user for that matter) and two, that I’m willing to jump into something that I’ve been pretty against in the past.
As we get older we spend more and more time trying to understand who we fundamentally and principally are. Retrospection now becomes a part of what we do and we spend time through introspection, reflection, and conversations with trusted partners and friends about who we are and what we’re meant to do with ourselves in our limited time on earth.
Albeit, many of us do not do this enough for our own good (and for others). I believe that the better we know ourselves the more we have to positively offer others and the world. And, we get a nice healthy kickback too.
I can literally hear all of the IT administrators scream as they have to “unblock” access to Facebook on their local networks at work…
The idea of Facebook moving into the team and productivity setting makes complete sense. Even I find myself nodding my head in agreement with their strategy and product direction.
