by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Oct 21, 2011 | Good Reads, Uncategorized
Although some folks use Twitter the whole week long to tweet out their favorite online finds of the week, I tend to like weekly wrap-ups that you can process all at once. The work productivity theory behind this is that your day will be less interrupted if you chunk...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Oct 9, 2011 | Inspiration, Uncategorized
“Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.” Jorge Luis Borges I swear I posted this last week. (But, apparently, I didn’t.) My husband showed me this video recently and I was (as usual) in tears when poignant music and heart-wrenching topics...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Oct 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
Last week, I posted the first in what will surely be an ongoing series of weekly, biweely, who-knows-what-frequency posts. Specifically, this post was made up of three of the worst emails I received last week. One of them (#3) was of particular interest. THE EMAIL:...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Oct 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
I love this video. If you know anything about the city of Buenos Aires or the incredible Argentine author Borges (who went blind at the end of his life — as depicted in the video), you will smile. Even if you don’t, you will still smile. Buenos...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Sep 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
For years, I have been sending bad emails to my nearest and dearest. Let me restate that. Aside from sending the usual garbage that I create in my last-minute, rushed head, I specifically forward on the particular bizarre/bad emails that random strangers send me....
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Sep 10, 2011 | Business, Uncategorized
It’s been a few months since I first wrote about Referral Key, and the comments don’t stop coming to that now-popular post. The Referral Key main guy (founder or ceo or something that escaped me) also weighed in with his highly unbiased opinion. Given the...