by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Oct 25, 2013 | Business, Uncategorized
Be forewarned: This post is not one in which I (attempt) to impart the limited wisdom I have gained from my life. Instead, it’s a post in which I ask for wisdom from you wise ones. The Background: My friend Adam Grant is the youngest tenured professor at...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Oct 17, 2013 | Productivity, Uncategorized
Usually, we don’t see the peace around us. Instead, we bury our heads in work and play and family and life-life-life and sometimes – only sometimes – do we raise our head and really see the world around us for the calm that it really offers....
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Aug 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
This is a guest post by Jeff Becker, a sales professional and entrepreneur. Currently, he works as an Account Executive @ LinkedIn and is also the Co-Founder of earhoox. Superpowers in the traditional sense might be neat, but until I am accidentally soaked in a...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Jul 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
I was going through some financial statements recently when I saw a charge from Netflix MOVIES for $7.99 a month. I’ve never signed up for Netflix, so I wondered what was up. It turns out it had been happening for a few months. So I called the phone number...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Jun 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’m typically rather obsessed with not caring about the little things, and sometimes that can be a bad thing. My husband , for one, has long told me I don’t pay enough attention to detail at times, and I know I have made mistakes as a result. Come to our...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Jun 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Last year, one of my friends had a baby. It was a natural birth. It was also a home birth. It was also her fifth. Yup. A mere hour or so before giving birth, she was apparently chatting on Skype with some other bloggers, saying it was time to put on some mascara (for...