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Writer | Design Lead @scale_AI public sector | Athlete • I write to get to the truth • Debut memoir in the works 🎈
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Cyrus fell asleep for the last time yesterday. I write this in absolute silence. The apartment that was too small for him now feels smaller in his absence. He is everywhere even though he isn’t. When I hear a knock, I expect his bark but it is going to be quiet from now on.
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Am I the only person (who works in tech) deeply uninterested in a new iPhone until mine completely breaks?
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I deleted my ig a few weeks ago, and terrifyingly, I find myself wanting to revive it every time I do something "cool". Its effects are so insidious - the need to prove that our lives are awesome.
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I look at everything I own but I think: surely if I asked hard enough, I could exchange all of it to have him back. I want nothing else.
But because I can’t have it and my grief is tearing me apart, I must write about him.
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Once, he jumped out of his dog walker's van on the way home, about 20 blocks away, and he ran all the way home.
I hope he knows that home will always be where I'm at. Where mom is. He is with me, always.
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On his last day, he went to the beach twice. He had bacon, ice cream, and chocolates. He was kissed and held, and so deeply loved.
Goodbye, my friend. Rest well. You had a big life.
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Today I feel more pain than I've ever felt.
But that is because I'd experienced more love than I ever thought possible. Not only did he mend my broken heart, he showed me that I was worthy of great love. Thank you, my sweet baby.
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8 years ago, I was heartbroken from a bad breakup, and selfishly looking for a dog to fulfill an impossible task: mend my broken heart.
I couldn't explain it but when I saw him, I knew right away that he was meant to be with me.
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And I never once felt unloved since I had Cyrus. He was my greatest teacher and my purest love. We loved each other no matter the day.
I can only hope to channel him as I continue to move forward.
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Cyrus was silly. We had so much fun together.
He was unabashedly silly and pure. And when I am unabashedly silly and pure, he loved me anyway. He taught me that it is ok to be me.
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I never once felt unsafe once I had Cyrus. He protected me no matter where we went. Making sure that I was okay was his number one priority.
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I want to be Head of Design somewhere, and I also want to be an architect again, maybe also triple as an interior designer. I also want to write a book, sell prints of my oil paintings, design home products. I want to do so much that idk what it is I'm truly meant to do. Advice??
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I'm a design manager effective today. Moving up the product design ladder as designed 🤠
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I moved into my dream apartment today with this view. I came to America with 2 bags. Sometimes, I forget how much I’ve done for myself, but this isn’t the moment I try to diminish my accomplishments.
No, this is the moment I celebrate it/me.
I live here now.
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My PM is leaving tech to go be a farmer. I’m sitting here staring at my figma file thinking about how beautiful that is
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@AndrewAskins
It was the hardest thing. His cancer was so aggressive so fast. Thanks for your words.
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Wish I hadn't said last one because how could I ever stop remembering him.
One birthday, he ate 6 cupcakes and still asked for more.
I'm heartened by the thought of him feasting now where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts.
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I'm lying on the floor next to my dog, holding his paw, feeling a beating pulse. I'm recording a sound bite of his breath. This weekend, it is his last 💔
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People asking me if I have exciting plans for the weekend really makes me wonder what kind of exceptional quarantine life y'all are living that I don't know about
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It's ok to put yourself first.
#figmavalentine
Tell your sweetheart how you really feel with the Figma Valentine Template. Duplicate and remix our community file, then share here and tag your honey.
Because in a way, if you think about it, the greatest multiplayer collaboration of all...is love 😘
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Spoiler alert: Just because you've spent years doing something doesn't mean you have to spend the rest of your life doing it.
After all I strongly believe that every skill is transferable, sometimes in the most unexpected ways.
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Me: I don’t really eat meat anymore
People: omg, what happened?
Me, and 98% of all people who switched their diets: I watched a documentary
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Today I became an American.
10 years ago, I came to this land with nothing except a deep longing in my heart to find.. something.
On my flight here, I wrote in my journal: I don't know what's coming but I know that life will never be the same again.
Life was never the same
I moved into my dream apartment today with this view. I came to America with 2 bags. Sometimes, I forget how much I’ve done for myself, but this isn’t the moment I try to diminish my accomplishments.
No, this is the moment I celebrate it/me.
I live here now.
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my lover just moved in & now my apartment smells like home. he was trained as a chef, an incredible artist in the kitchen. my fridge that used to house a small tray of eggs, takeout boxes, and salad kits, is now stuffed to edges with cooked meats and sauces. this sun-kissed room
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some unexpected observations from writing and posting everyday:
- I'm opening up more
- partner noticing that I'm sharing more parts of myself (that I hid/thought was embarrassing)
- increasingly I'm reading smart, well-written content and not feel bad about myself. what used
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nothing fancy, just simple words conveying how much my dog means to me. this prose poem is in
@PennelRalph
's current issue ❤️
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I’m too young to have gone through this many layoffs in my career.
I’m grateful to have been safe every time but the pre-layoff anxiety and the post-layoff heartbreak are real each time.
I lost too many beloved coworkers today 💙
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@datepsych
Do you find that this also applies in its entirety to neurodivergent men?
I've found that some bids that might seem really small to neurotypical folks may be a big hill to climb for those with executive function difficulties.
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Broke down while working and all I can hear in my head are imagined voices of my colleagues saying "she's so weak", "she's so sensitive", "she's so emotional". How much of this is unconscious feminine conditioning?
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Colleague with wife: I have to wfh today, my wife is sick
Colleague with kids: I have to leave early today to pick up my kids
Me, single, lives alone:
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I do believe that life will be beautiful either way, that there will be joy and grief either way.
To all the women who know and who chose. To all the women who know and who didn't choose. To all the women who don't know yet, who might never know. To all the women experiencing
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Your twenties are for saying yes to every adventure that comes your way. Your thirties are for feeling horrified with all those yeses, and amazed at how somehow you're still alive.
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At my strongest, I deadlifted 300lbs, squatted 230lbs, and benched 135lbs.
In 2019, I found myself writhing in pain at the foot of the lifting platform. I could not move, yet all I could think was: fuck, my competition is next week.
It was a herniated disc.
I spent the better
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Config was exactly the medicine I ordered. It feels safe and okay to think like the person I am again: the one who cares, the one who sees the details others don't, the one who asks why, the one who asks why not, the one who's kinda nerdy, the one who's a designer.
#Config2023
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If someone kisses you and it doesn���t make you giddy, you’re not smiling in between kisses, and you don’t feel the pull to kiss them back over and over, what are you even kissing them for?
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He's a 10 but he uses a measuring cup to add water when cooking rice.
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It's done! My first realistic oil portrait. Quite happy with it. I think you can expect more oil paintings from me 🤗
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sometimes I think about how much power one person (your manager) can have over your career, and it really does not feel like a good system
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Just like how designers should not work in silos, I'm learning to see writing as a form of craft that requires a fast feedback loop to iterate and thereby, perfect.
I've written online here and there, but most of my writing live in scattered google docs. That ends today.
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I felt a feeling today that I haven't felt in so long. Being so terrified of a lift thinking I can't do it, and then conquering it 🥲 didn't think I'd be able to power clean this for front squats but I DID
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tonight, I got up halfway through our family dinner and secretly paid the bill. asian daughter achievement unlocked.
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So, instead of just never texting me again out of the blue, this guy sent me a ghost emoji 👻 before never texting me again 😂
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When I bought my
@Dyson
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Remove attachment for drop set 😂
#getcreative
#homeworkout
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No one tells you that (or maybe they did, just not to me) becoming a writer means that the world suddenly becomes a playground. You're now the keenest observer in the room. Everything has the potential to be the stuff of great literature.
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thought I didn't like design anymore, until I used a poorly designed app this morning and then fired a long email full of user feedback to their team, and I was like woah is that passion?
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I ordered my own birthday cake from
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for my birthday next month, and since I won’t have a party this year I’m looking forward to eating the whole cake myself 🎂🤤
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Omg. I told a guy I’m not interested right now and he sent me eleven screenshots of other girls rejecting him. ELEVEN. before saying “aight”
💀😂
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My first accepted poem 😭😭😭
Thank you
@porchlitmag
for giving this piece a home, and for letting me know that yes, I am a poet. ❤️
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I ,too, got a framed tweet of mine from Twitter Design 😱. Have I made it?
P.S. I still like design.
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Sorry but when this thing is lifted, I’m gonna stay inside for 2 more weeks. Let y’all eager bees test the waters first.
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I'm sure I'm not alone in this, but some days I'm so overwhelmed by the terror I feel. I feel terrified. Terrified by the possibility of 4 more years. Terrified of the irreversible damage that would do to our world.
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If I shield myself from everything that scares me, I'd never grow.
My approach: generally let go of my beliefs (they're not allowed to be strong until educated), learn about it, and if it feels right, go help build it.
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How does anyone do anything in December?
I am in bed under covers wearing 2 sweaters, fleece socks, fleece sweatpants, winter scarf, and took my gloves off only to type this tweet
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how's cyrus is a difficult question to answer when your dog is still himself but the chemo isn't working. for now I look at his doting face and know that we still have today.
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I’ve traveled alone as a single woman countless times in my short life.
Tucked in this short post are 3 unexpected learnings 👇🏼
Hell, it is the reason I live in San Francisco today, having traveled here to America with two bags, no plans nor friends.
I’ve met many who called
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the way he gets out of bed in his blanket when I open a bag of chips
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Hi, I'm looking to make more connections in SF. I'm in Laurel Heights, have a 7yo dog, and we like to take long walks. If you are or know of someone who're looking for new friendships, let's connect!
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More difficult stuff you can do from home without weights - single leg RDLs to single leg squat 💀
and repeat
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It's my birthday today. Can I get a great design leadership coach? 🙃
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The only time in my life where I’d picked someone because he was handsome and lucked out
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While Americans look for other countries to move to, my immigrant friends and I feel kinda stuck. We have worked relentlessly hard to be here, and we continue to forge a sense of belonging in this country we now call home. This inner conflict as chaos unfold is indescribable.
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Every morning he waits patiently for me to open the balcony door so he can lay in the sun and watch the world go by.
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I always leave for appointments early and carry a book with me to squeeze in any extra reading time I can get while I wait
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every time a designer says they're not looking for copy feedback during design review
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Thinking about the time I received this message, and then there are all you boys out there sending “wyd” thinking it’ll get you a response
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@datepsych
Depends on their flavor of divergence, I suppose. My partner is honest about what's hard for him to do even when being told. On the flip side, I've learned to recognize his genuine moments of expressing love which have also come to feel like love for me 🥰
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Been a month since I started no-screen weekends. I'm an organized person who lives by my schedule but now for 1 day each week I get to be untethered and unavailable. I get to get lost.
I got lost in a book on Saturday. I've been wanting to return to that version of myself. 🥰
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Lots of people talking about their experience getting the O1:
Sharing my story because it might look different than what you know. Also spoiler alert, your own pursuit will probably look different too.
Being alien in a place that feels like home is a big lonely room.
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Why do people in relationships like to make single people feel like the reason they’re not in relationships yet is because they don’t love themselves? 😑
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the urge to cancel plans you made when you had ambitions of being a sociable human being
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I spent my adult life undoing my mother's belief that the world is a dangerous place and everything I do will hurt me. I started my aerials journey this year and every moment I find myself suspended in the air has chipped away at this fear.
I am not afraid. I trust myself.
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It's so revitalizing to see everything familiar through the eyes of someone who's seeing it for the first time.
Showing my partner around Singapore & I've never felt this connected to my old home. His awe experiencing the things that was old and mundane has brought back wonder.
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Today is a great day because it’s Friday but I *also* quit my job and accepted a better offer 😊
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