7-40 Challenge | Rest Week I saw a quote today on social media. You've seen a version of it a hundred times: We only get one life. So why aren't you running as hard as you can toward your wildest dreams? It was attached to somebody's website. There was a famous name stapled to it … Continue reading The Dream You Never Actually Wanted
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A Good Goodbye
7-40 Challenge | Rest Week Thirteen years ago, my grandmother was home, slowly waiting for the cancer to take her. I knew she was near the end. She lived about an hour and a half away, so I called and asked if I could come early. I drove down, and that morning I cooked her … Continue reading A Good Goodbye
Ten Thousand
7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 35 BiblePictures365 hit 10,000 followers on Instagram today. On January 1, I had zero. No audience. No following. No track record. Just an idea — one image per chapter, every day for a year reading through the whole Bible— and enough stubbornness to start posting before anyone was watching. … Continue reading Ten Thousand
Data Is Communication
7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 26 I had a conversation today that connected twenty years of my career to the thing everyone's trying to figure out right now. I work in data management. I've spent two decades as the person who sits between business teams and technical teams, translating what one side needs into … Continue reading Data Is Communication
The Joining Tables Moment
7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 25 My freshman year of college, I convinced myself I couldn't handle music theory. I had the brain for it. I just didn't believe I did. So I enrolled in fundamentals instead — the kiddie pool — while my entire cohort moved ahead into the real coursework. I never … Continue reading The Joining Tables Moment
