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18 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
My gratitudes for this week.
-Just got back and had 3 messages waiting for me from people who got things done on #Hackathon work. Also more money was raised. I can build a team, activate folks, & they will get things done... with joy.
-OMG the flowers were SO pretty today!!!...
..-My rent in Boston came down $400
-my classmates are waiting for me to arrive to do stuff together
-part of why I have so much stuff is each card and show program is a cherished memory but I can let go of the "stuff" and keep the memories
-I get to work with amazing faculty...
-I know I already said this but I came back to find work already done (albeit as assigned). Like OMG. It's beautiful. Like leave with anxiety, come back calmer, find work done. Minus the anxiety, could everyday end like this?
My "problem" is an embarrassment of riches after have had worked super hard, been told "no" & "you aren't qualified" & "nice but not good enough" SO many times. Now: I'm I've won 2 sandbox mini-grants, incubating 2 other start up ideas, & just invited by CMS to submit a proposal
But this is the nature of being an executive, but experienced as a grad student. Can't say "yes" to everything. Can't take care of everyone. Can't achieve in every direction at once. Have to make choices. Have to risk making a wrong choice.

Sh*t..my call is at 7..not 7:30!

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Likely, the answer is: authenticity
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So true. The #pandemic has revealed whose inability to cope with disruption & loss of (false sense of) control results in their need to assert online control of others

I see so much uptick of low value & harmful policing behaviors. It is waste

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Stuff like this makes my day.. week
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(Women have joined the team then had to step away. I support their having tried)

I hate saying no

So if I could not support her to participate, created an alternate opportunity
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ted.com/talks/reshma_s… - as a South Asian woman I especially love this as both heritage & "model minority' teaches perfection (which is a fear-based goal, fear of failure with metrics that are external rather than internal mission/goals)
It is my personal mission to teach girls & for model for
women not to allow anyone to box them in or define the boundaries of their talent, achievement, humanity
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Start something & leave it unfinished
Write code that does not run
Be "too"..
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Okay.this is stress induced. I just committed to moving..mid-semester, am sleeping 3-4 hours a night, leading a major event, in an accelerated grad school program, and amid a tense election. I do have intermittent pain, but my migraines have not been this bad for a while.
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