Just once, I wish I could kiss you for an hour in the middle of a quiet park; Taste your beautiful lips.
Just once, I wish I could hold you in my arms and draw animals on your back; Paint you with my fingers.
Just once, I wish I could wake up with your head on my shoulder; Wrapped in the morning mist.
Every adult is stupid in some subject. And every grown child wishes an adult told them it’s okay, instead of growing up being scared and ashamed and embarrassed.
I made a bunch of mistakes (fumbled with displaying slides via Share Screen, got people’s names wrong). Also had a great time presenting a normally in-person 2-hour workshop via Zoom video conference!
Zoom tip: When I switched to Share screen mode I noticed all the participants names disappear. I want to be able to address them by name, so I wrote down their names on a piece of paper as soon as we were back in Gallery (Brandy Bunch) view (where names are displayed).
The Pomp Podcast with host Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano and guest, Chamath Palihapitiya, the CEO of Social Capital, the Chairman of Virgin Galactic, and the owner of the Golden State Warriors. In this conversation, Chamath and Anthony discuss how billionaires quarantine, where Chamath currently has capital invested, how he thinks we can solve the structural issues in health and economics, why being a patient investor will pay off, where he is looking for opportunity right now, what he thinks should happen with the NBA, and how the world is going to change after the pandemic is over.
It can be the roller coaster, the tea cups, the submarine, the ferris wheel, the fun house.
You can ride again, choose another ride, cheer on others, relax in the park, sit and eat ice cream. You’re the tour guide.
You can even leave the amusement park.
Frustration is a compass that’s sewn into your heart. And it blasts a siren every time your life gets off course. Like, “Shit, you’re veering off course. Get the hell back on track!” That’s the power of frustration when it’s used as a tool.
Coronavirus pandemic stay-home orders, essential workers, and the need to learn an essential new skill-set.
My daughter is an essential worker at Target, and is very worried about getting infected by SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (COVID-19) as the public continues to shop at Target. She would LOVE to stay home and not risk hers and her son’s health.
Robots will eventually replace my daughter’s job in retail.
100 years ago a Switchboard Operator was an essential worker. That job doesn’t exist today, just like my daughter’s job won’t exist forever.
I used to do manual paste-up and layout for The Sacramento Observer newspaper in 1983. Then I lived through the invention of the Apple Macintosh, and within a few short years my entire skill-set was obsolete.
I had to learn everything from scratch on the Mac. It was scary, but Steve Jobs didn’t care if I was out of a manual newspaper paste-up job. And I knew people who weren’t able to make that leap from manual layout to desktop publishing.
There’s no such thing as job security!
The following Facebook comments from fellow Toastmasters provide a deeper insight than I imagined:
The bigger your mistakes in Toastmasters, the less you’ll look ruffled in real life!
If you use Moneydance for your accounting, like I do, and need to move a shitload of transactions from an old Category to a new Category, I just tried this technique from Kevin N. in the InfiniteKind forum – and it totally works.
Example time.
I have an old expense Category called:
“Business – Web & Graphics > Communications > Skype Calling”
This, and a couple of other Communication sub-categories, make up my current Communications category, and I want to consolidate/merge all these separate sub-Categories into one new Communication Category called:
“Business Expenses > Communication”
(I learned I can add Tags to each entry to differentiate between “Skype”, “Internet”, and “Cell phone service”, as well as “Graphics”, “Coaching”, and “T-shirts”).
Using Tags is awesome!