8/2/2024

Life

Just turned 31, and basically spent the day getting pizza (first time in a year... gotta live diet fun) and taking a 4hr phone call with my best friend. It's a simple life, and I'm all for it. And thankful that I have someone that I can literally talk about anything with.

Work

I feel like I'm hitting the hardest part of building Curve yet- how to position my company. I know at the super high, 10k foot view that I want to be that neutral, sits-in-marketing-but-still-technical type of resource that I never had, and I know that I want the brand to match my... candor. But the actual look and feel of my website? That's the hard part- especially because I can technically design it all, but I also know that I'm a C+ designer at best. So it's been a journey of trying to find the right team for helping me build it out, and finding the balance between being lean (not needing a full agency model) but also wanting something that looks badass (wanting something more than average)

Rabbit Hole

I ended up doing an updated CliftonStrength test, with some surprising results: Futuristic, Strategic, and Arranger are still top for me, but competition moved down, Includer went to the bottom, and they got swapped with Ideation and Individualization. I'm still taking it with a grain of salt, but it's interesting to think- am I less inclusive because my experience have changed since college, or is it simply that I've built up other areas? I've definately learned a strong connection with someone is rare, and it takes effort to build that friendship, so plenty to think about.

Reading

I've just started Atlas of the Heart after finishing Permission to Feel. Building a business is a big challenge for me, and I think emotional literacy basically touches every area of that- how I talk to myself, what I did and didn't learn growing up, how I show up for my (future) team, etc- and the first step of that is recognizingthe feelings when they come up.

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