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It’s okay to be interrupted
(3-minute read) Okay, so it’s March 2020, my aunt passed away (not COVID-19 related), the pandemic hits the U.S. and we are ordered to shelter in place, my job issues a work-from-home (WFH) mandate for the foreseeable future, just as I was talking about career growth with my manager. I had no idea—like many of you—that two years later we would still be dealing with the effects of COVID-19…unexcepted deaths, illness, weight gain, anxiety, etc. My life had been interrupted. I got used to staying in the house day and night. It was all I wanted to do, even after the at-home mandate was lifted. I was used to going…
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Positive/Negative: what are you consuming?
(2-minute read) Okay, this is a working title but you get the point… I had a thought recently about how negativity spreads like wildfire while positive people doing positive things takes so long to catch a spark. Why does degrading content get the most shares, likes, and laughing emojis but stories about people doing good for themselves or their communities garner no more than a few seconds of our attention and hardly any engagement? Consider the number of positive images/content of Black men graduating from higher education institutions vs. Black men walking down prison walkways. Or weigh the number of times the media broadcasts women partnering to form LLCs against…
