There’s a trainer at my gym who is a good friend—mostly a gym friend, though we’re text-level too. Today, I was squatting in the rack and he put his client on the platform directly behind me. I was squatting a weight that is doable, but slight scary (90% of 1RM), and it really bothered me…
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“Travels with Just a Shoulder Bag”
Just before my last-minute ski trip last weekend, I read this article about how Athleta’s CMO travels with only a shoulder bag. Um, yes. So inspired, for my Friday night-Monday morning trip I packed only my ski bag and a shoulder bag. The shoulder bag*, similar to this Sak shopper (just a different pattern), held:…
There Seems to Be a Theme … Stop | 3 Things I Emailed This Week
As I type from my couch home sick, where I’ve slept legitimately 24 of the last 48 hours, I am CLEARLY seeking/receiving/manifesting/some other something the words of the universe to STOP DOING SOMETHING. Not just slow down, but eliminate some things that aren’t serving me: The Most Unrealistic Expectation of Them All Need to hear…
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Does my body look good, or is it just my jeans?
I was staying with my lifelong facebook girlfriend and her husband on a recent weekend when she received a fresh Athleta shipment containing some new skinny jeans. Boring boring new skinny jeans who hasn’t launched those? I thought at first. BUT HOLY COW the skinny jeans are the holy grail of skinny jeans. You know…
5 Things I Emailed This Week: Millennial Madness
I’m happy to occupy the random sweet spot that is between millennial-millennial and Gen-X-millennial, the group born in about 6 years that’s digitally-native with the benefit of experiencing a life (we remember) without technology. Cell phone when I could drive at 16. Facebook halfway through college. Early enough adoption of instagram that it was boring…
5 Things I’ve Emailed This Week
These are links I’ve emailed around to various friends, so thought I’d share them with y’all too. — As a woman, and feminist, and leader, in tech—from startups to literal IT—how could I not weigh in on this? First, read: The google engineer’s memo, in its entirety. Then, read: The google senior executive (YouTube CEO) response…