“When are you available for lunch next week?” … Have you ever spent more time scheduling a meeting over email than actually talking over coffee? … If this question makes you cringe just at the idea of the never-ending email thread that it’s about to start, you’re in for a treat.” These are some of …
Category: Personal
4/16.
April 16th, 2007. When someone asks me why I chose Virginia Tech after high school, that date is one of the first things that flashes to the front of my mind. I remember sitting in world history class that year – my junior year of high school – and not really knowing where Blacksburg was, even. But I was watching …
Craig.
Before you click “read more”, I just want to warn you that this is one of the more honest, vulnerable, and real posts I think I’ve ever written for this here blog. I hope you’ll relate to it in some way, anyways… You know, I always feel like regrets are for people who don’t mean …
The first quarter of 1 Second Everyday 2015.
Especially since the Austin trip, many people have been learning more and asking about my 1 second everyday project. As you may already know, this is a project that I adopted to record 1 second of my life everyday for the calendar year of 2015. I was inspired by a TED talk by Cesar Kuriyama …
Honored to be appointed by Virginia Governor McAuliffe.
I never thought I’d be able to say that I was an appointee to a gubernatorial administration. Even more importantly, I never thought I’d be able to say that I am a gubernatorial appointee working toward quelling his own hangups and admitted anxiety about working with others with disabilities. But here I am. Last summer …
The next chapter of HESONWHEELS: Everyday philanthropy.
When you think of the word philanthropy, what do you think of? Money? Dollar signs? Donations? Charities? Do any of those words come to your mind? Based on asking this question via HESONWHEELS and in-person over the past four months, those words are very popular “first-thoughts” when people think of philanthropy. Further, based on the …
1SE, Part I.
Back in January, I made it a goal to work on a big project for this year. It wouldn’t require a ton of my time, but it would require a ton of memory. I’m not a person who is much for a routine, so I decided to work on recording 1 second of my life: …
Home, revisited.
Last fall, I made a post about the struggle I had been experiencing with defining a “home” for myself. I spent much of 2014 moving around. The previous many, many years I had lived in just one place – the longest time I had ever lived in one place – and preparing to leave physically …