After talking online with a friend about Imposter Syndrome and feedback, I decided to ramble a bit into the camera about it. Pardon the quick editing job.
The graphic I mention is this one:
Category: Life
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Alicia Liu diagrammed this experience for her post Overcoming Imposter Syndrome —
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Amber and I have crushes on Anne and Wil Wheaton respectively. She likes to say that we’re ‘like Team Wheaton but less famous.’
With that in mind, here’s a recent online conversation between the two:
via Yes, we were on opposite ends of the house. | WIL WHEATON dot NET.
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Ber and I made a braggot earlier this year. It’s been carbonating and bottle conditioning in our basement for two months now and I decided that it was time to sample.
Just enough bubbles It was absolutely delicious. I think we nailed the carbonation and it has a great mouthfeel. It rides the line between beer and wine just like we wanted. The only thing I want to change on the next batch is to lessen the amount of orange peel. The orange flavors are nice, but started to dominate the taste when we intended it to be more of a ‘hint of orange.’ Live and learn. 🙂
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On twitter last night, someone shared this image of a dog made out of bicycle parts.
Dog sculpture from Nirit Levav I turned to Ber and said, “It’s that dog breed! With the dreads! Shenzi?!”
“You mean a Puli?” she replied. She of course was right. Shenzi was one of the hyenas from the Lion King. Except today I found out this dog sculpture is actually a Pekingese.
Clearly I don’t see enough dogs.
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Love Ben Folds, and this new song is seriously the direction I wish all pop music would go in. Before now I’d never heard of yMusic, but I plan to seek them out. 🙂
Listen to “Capable of Anything” by Ben Folds and yMusic | NPR’s All Songs Considered
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My friend Danny and I were on the Big Four pedestrian bridge this weekend. We did the Ingress mission, hung out on the Flat 12 Bierwerks patio in Jeffersonville hacking a few portals in range, then we walked back and threw fields across the river. Lots of fun was had.
Fields over the river. We almost got Danny leveled up to L6. But when I laid down in bed last night, in those moments when I was halfway between awake and falling asleep, I kept having visions of me staring over the edge of the bridge, just a bit too far. Losing balance considering the height and the wind. Trying to take pictures, but almost losing my phone over the rail. And finally, holding onto the rail for my life.
I thought I’d gotten better about my fear of heights, but it would seem my subconscious disagrees.
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I’ve heard plenty of folks use the term ‘bank of Dad’ or ‘bank of Mom’ to describe the scenario of a child begging for money out of their parent’s wallet.  But I’ve never seen a parent take it this seriously.
My favorite personal finance guru, Mr. Money Mustache, created a ‘Bank of Mr. Money Mustache’ spreadsheet to help his son save and spend with mindfulness.
Instead of a physical piggy bank, my boy prefers to keep his money in the Bank of Mr. Money Mustache, a spreadsheet that contains every transaction he makes with money. To make a deposit, he just hands me some cash. To withdraw, he asks me for cash or has me buy something for him online.
But for every dollar that remains in the account, he accrues interest at a 10% annual rate with monthly compounding. I’m excited about the teaching value of this, because it shows him that
- his money is finite (not just an limitless pool that you tap by nagging parents to buy you stuff)
- keeping the money invested is profitable (his $600 account is now bringing in a very tangible $5 per month in interest)
- new windfalls can be added, interest compounds exponentially, and an account like this of sufficient size means lifelong financial freedom
I’ve never seen a more amazing idea, and I intend to steal it one day.
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(Edit: Today is Saturday, not Sunday.)
Making waffles this morning, I decided to catch up on some podcasts. Among them was yesterday’s Planet Money episode, This Ad’s For You.
The episode features Tom Burrell, the first black man in Chicago advertising. It’s a great story and if you should listen to it. The stories and background music of the episode do a great job of setting the listener into 1960’s Chicago.
To accompany that, host Sonari Rhodes Glinton created a Spotify playlist to enjoy the music long after the episode is done:
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I love creative thinking and brainstorming. It feels good to get all the ideas out of my head and onto something tangible. One thing that always holds me back though is being too self-conscious of my doodling and drawing quality. It’s poor.
Never having invested much time in it while young, I feel like I could think a lot better if I had taught myself to draw more often.
For some reason I’ve been thinking a lot about how I’d draw a set of stairs. Like multiple times over the past several days.
Today I actually drew them.
A good first step? —
Alex "Gus" Gustafson 