Recently read @nathanbarry's recent blog post on developing a good writing habit and how that habit can produce an audience that then can produce significant income opportunities. The road to speaking engagements and influencer opps starts with words.

nathanbarry.com/good-things/ Also, I want to begin writing that is not tied to ecosystem work.

I want to write about being a female CEO and navigating the world of dating and relationships because, in all this girl power talk, we don't get real-life advice on one of the most significant parts of our lives.

I prayed for every ounce of this respect and recognition. And I worked my ass off for it.

For the deep work to matter. And it’s paying off in dividends I didn’t even know were possible. I never needed the applause. Merely the respect of my contemporaries and to be treated as a peer & talented journalist and data enthusiast who took nothing and turned it into something because it mattered.

Who adopted second-order thinking to see what we have the capacity to be

It doesn't matter where you went to college if you never learned the art of networking or building social capital. I know way too many people, friends even, who earned their degrees and are still struggling in the workforce because they didn't get prepared for the world. Access, networks, opportunity, and organizational-adjacency matter a great deal, and I'm afraid we're doing so many of our first-gen and even second-gen, but might-as-well-be-first-gen college students a disservice by not helping them think strategically about their experience.

Though I decided to make the hard decision to close the @weareblktechclt space, I am grateful for the outpouring support from community and true supporters whose lives we touched. Folks who prayed for us, brought their babies into our space, gave back relentlessly to our cause. Sometimes the hard thing about hard things is making strategic decisions to end the suffering. To extract ourselves from unnecessary hardships.

In this case, we were spending a great deal of resources and time simply trying to operate a physical space.