Daily Connector | A Silver Lining | Marlene Suter
I consider myself an optimistic person, so when challenging circumstances come my way, I try to find the ‘silver linings’. They’re almost always there, and noticing them helps me feel more grounded and hopeful in troubled times. I’m grateful that I’ve…
Daily Connector | Technical Debt | Tim Armstrong
In software, we have a nasty, hidden source of problems called technical debt. Tech debt is the work left undone at time of delivery; when something is done quickly or cosmetically rather than correctly. In the short term, customers love software accruing tech debt because it means they get their…
Daily Connector | Blessing in the Chaos | Submitted by Lavonne vander Zwaag
“Blessing in the Chaos” by Jan Richardson To all that is chaotic in you, let there come silence. Let there be a calming of the clamoring, a stilling of the voices that have laid their claim on you, that have made their home in you, that go with you even…
Daily Connector | Getting some fresh air | Erin Kelty
I have spent more time outside in the past 3 months than perhaps in the past 15 years. As a kid I played outside all day every day and could go a week without putting on a pair of shoes. I don’t remember any exact moment of transformation, but somehow…
Daily Connector | Summer, not normal | Jenny Campagna
There is no normal it seems to me with COVID19 and the next thing coming, whatever it may be. This week it is protests and violent police response as the dearth of national leadership is again spotlighted. In my mental health/grief interview with Mark, I talked of imagining fireflies of…
