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The Big One

September 19, 2017

Last year on this day I turned on my computer, swallowed my fear, and went back to work. It’s been a whole year. I made it. Yesterday we had a bit of a shitstorm and my boss said to me, “Carrie, I love you. I mean I f*cking love you. If you try to go somewhere and take a different job I will hunt you down, put you in handcuffs and drag you back to the office.” Some people might…

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Know yourself

All week long I’ve tried to think about particularly insightful things to say here. I’m not sure I have any. Here goes: I went back to work. I was not planning on doing this, at all. It just kind of happened. I hate when people say…

October 7, 2016

Fear, let it swallow you whole

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. – Tim Ferris Today was a complete shit day. The worst of the worst. I have a lot of those, but this one really got to me. Then I slammed my…

June 17, 2015