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One year: New York City

by sdulai on Oct 21, 2012 • No Comments

It was a year ago this month that I rolled into New York City, the last year has had its ups and downs (oh those downs) but it’s always been interesting. I think I know now why they call it the city that never sleeps… it’s not the city, it’s the people in the city...

Inspiration / News

“Because we’re pussies” – Ira Glass. And a dozen other answers from his Reddit AMA

by sdulai on Oct 10, 2012 • No Comments

Ever since Louis CK logged on to Reddit about a year ago for one of the website’s signature AMAs (Ask me Anything), celebraties have been a fairly regular occurrence on the popular website. Following President Obama’s AMA in late August, the flood gates have really opened and every day there’s a new famous person falling...

Journal

Our obsession with being online is the perfect reason for #GetOfflineDay

by sdulai on Oct 9, 2012 • No Comments

A couple of months ago my good friend Roberto Rosales had upgraded his phone and decided to toss me his old iPhone 3Gs. When I told my friends I’d finally be able to join them on Instagram and Draw Something, one of them remarked “pooping will never be the same…” I’m using it now as an iPod Touch...

Dear Me, how’s it going, call your mother more often #JCarn

Yup, once again, welcome to my latest post for #JCarn. The Carnival of Journalism is a loose collection of journalism thinkers (and people like me) who get together to post on their blogs with their reflections on a given prompt. This month I had the opportunity to host and asked folks to write themselves a letter. As it’s the end of the year, it felt like the right time to look inward. Plus we spend so much time looking outside of ourselves at the industry/government/tech trends/government that self-reflection becomes that icky no-no that we seldom tackle. I know it’s scary, but come’on, let’s do this thing! Why? Because YOLO? “Write a letter to your younger self.” Dear Me, I’m writing to you from 2013, a little wiser, a little slower and probably still confused about why more people don’t do the right thing, but don’t let that stop you from trying. We’ve always been stubborn. I’m packing for a trip to India right now as I write this– don’t worry, you’re not married and yup, you’ll eventually leave California and actually get to fly in a plane– it’s been a wild couple of days. The last 10 or […]

Posted: December 20th, 2013 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Ideas

Write a letter to yourself! #JCarn Dec prompt

Howdy folks, After trading some e-mails with David for the great reboot of #JCarn– we were trading prompt ideas and well, I’ll be your host for December. Oh how rude of me, I’m being such a terrible host, let me take your coat, come on in, wipe your feet. As we race toward the end of 2013, it’s a natural time for reflection and in that spirit I think I’ve come up with what I hope will be an enjoyable and perhaps even cathartic prompt: “What would you write if you could send a letter to your fifteen-year-old self?” For December I would like you all to write a letter to your younger self. You can write about anything, no rules, no apologies. You may like to share with yourself advice, things to look out for, things you wished you did differently, regrets, hopes, what you’ve learned, about your life, choices… or just about anything that is on your mind. Ideally these are deeply personal to you and I hope it’ll be enlightening to others in its universality to the human condition. More often than not, if it’s important to you, it’s important to others. And who knows, maybe you’ll […]

Posted: November 11th, 2013 ˑ 7 Comments
Filled under: Ideas

One year: New York City

“Because we’re pussies” – Ira Glass. And a dozen other answers from his Reddit AMA

Our obsession with being online is the perfect reason for #GetOfflineDay

Get Connected

Dear Me, how’s it going, call your mother more often #JCarn

Write a letter to yourself! #JCarn Dec prompt