January 27, 2018

January's Almost Done. Are you Ready?

I always try to look to January as the scratch-pad of the year. Do what you must to get into the habits that you want to embody or refine this year. Use it as a time to refine and sharpen what you think will make you amazing. I used January to do a target alignment of what I could do versus what I aspired to. I wrote about that on my blog.

Reflecting on Growth

There’s something I read today in LifeHacker about the things we realize that can lead to a waste of time when we get older. Some things mentioned felt obvious; others not-so-much. I try to get better at capturing the things and events that frustrate me and understand why they elicit such emotion from me. This is a tactic I pulled from working on software - a form of debugging and reverse engineering. That can be pulled out into a whole post of its own.

Notable Tweets

“Your hero is not coming. We are (the heroes) what we’ve been waiting for.” - Dominique Hollins

Lesson: take strategic and thoughful action.

Part of the “Closing the Gap and Building Community in Tech” panel. #TechIntersections

— Regina Walton (@ReginaWalton) January 27, 2018

The ultimate truth of Black people in tech. We can’t go back thirty years easily and find people like us in industry. Trust me, if you name someone, I might know of them because I’ve looked. We (Black tech) have to be the future we seek.

“Your hero is not coming. We are (the heroes) what we’ve been waiting for.” - Dominique Hollins

Lesson: take strategic and thoughful action.

Part of the “Closing the Gap and Building Community in Tech” panel. #TechIntersections

— Regina Walton (@ReginaWalton) January 27, 2018

If you don’t understand, ignore this.

The word *privilege* is meaningless.

— #GeniusTweeter (@prisonculture) January 26, 2018

To be unpacked another time.