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Hello! I'm in a hurry to get this newsletter out because I've been on my computer way too much this week and I am feeling that familiar stress. It's addiction. Addiction to ego or addiction to success or addiction to production or addiction to...something.I'm not sure, but my brain is moving too fast, I have too much to do, I feel the stress, the reprisal burnout.

I listened to this episode of Hurry Slowly and I might be both a marathoner and a sprinter. And I definitely don't allow myself much time to digest achievements.

Getting offline helps me, so I need to take that seriously. What about you? Do you feel the same internal pressure, know you're only pressuring yourself, and then have to work really hard to stop pressuring yourself?

Maybe I'm emotive

all the emotions :/

This week I learned that a "talk" I'm giving at Open Source Summit Europe in a week is actually a three hour workshop. So I felt scrambley as I started to threw together an agenda on Inclusivity and Unconscious Bias (feel free to comment). Then I realized I actually know what I'm talking about and didn't finish it. Something for next week.

Speaking of Doug, Dr. Belshaw shared this Paradoxes of Participation screenshot with me, and it came at exactly the right moment. This week I have been putting together resources to help Greenpeace harness the energy of the Red Hat collaboration that is gathering steam. Reminding myself of the paradoxes is helping me give better advice.

I stress myself out. I know. Rationally I know. Lately it's been a lot of rumination and what I've noticed is that I am "reflecting", but anxious. Or, I'm "regretting", but planning. The framework does not provide insight into thinking diagonally instead of "above-the-line" or "below-the-line".

Maybe I'm derogatory

Found on workschoolenglish.com, and I'm glad people learn English with such cartoons.

There's always an angle to take in the war for political correctness. I shouldn't have said "war" because using it in this way downplays the seriousness of inter-species violence. Or whatever. In this episode of Everything is Derogatory™, we look at a tweet in which someone wishes to replace the words "blind spot" with "dead angle" because, they argue, "blind spot" is an ableist term. Of course I'll always argue that accessibility matters, but I would also argue that "dead" is an ableist term.

Maybe I need help?

I have MORE Maybe Zombies edits, but I am not sure I'm going to get to them soon. With the Greenpeace / Red Hat thing in full swing, plus Co-op clients, conference season and general stress, I haven't found time for my beloved novel. You should buy it before I do though, because once I get those edits in, I'll probably want to raise the price again. Maybe. Idk. Did you know you can:

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