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Autobiographers from the Homeless GoPro Project
One of my best buddies from high school. A former girlfriend and close friend. My grandpa. My dad.
Marines. Marines. Navy. Army.
On this Veterans Day, I would like to take a moment to express my deep gratitude to all servicemen and servicewomen for the sacrifice they have made and continue to make to fight for and protect our country and her values. I am humbled to be in your life.
Thank you Skunk, thank you Elizabeth, thank you grandpa, thank you dad.
If you prototype first, all dogs learn new tricks.
My 1st attempt at a programming joke.
What should be my next move to win?
Recently, two fellow entrepreneurs each recounted a story of a notable advisor blatantly poaching their plans. These sep…
Software engineer-to-be, that's me
print('"I have no business being in this class."
High school calculus, two weeks in. I said that. I felt that. I felt out of my league. The material was different than anything I had encountered before. I felt it was too hard; too foreign; too late for me, clearly. I felt I wasn't good enough to learn it.
Fortunately, I did not say that to myself only.
"Dad, I'm serious. I have no business being in that class." He grinned, a knowing look. His eyes set on mine: "I want you to remember that you said that."
He encouraged me that I could do it. When I pushed back further, he reassured me that he would help me learn it. When I pushed back further, he moved the goalposts closer. "Give it a couple weeks, son. We'll see."
Fine. I gave it a few more weeks. My frustration turned to exasperation turned to resignation: I was resigned to open my mind to the prospect that I could learn calculus, even if I did not necessarily think that I would.
But my mindset began to change. Soon, F's turned into C-'s, which turned into F's enclosed by J's (forming something called a B). And so I think I can and I think I can and I think I can further still. The material grew more challenging (proofs?!?), but my confidence and my core understanding accelerated to keep pace with, and eventually exceed, the level of difficulty. I grew to love calculus. More so, I loved that I began the course with minimal knowledge and low confidence, and gained much on both fronts.
I finished with an A-.
I recall my dad making a face like this one when I received my semester grade. You can almost hear him say "I told you so."
My dad has retold this story a hundred times. Usually my eyes roll as I can't help but grin. But today, August 17th, 2013, on what would have been my mom's 65th birthday, I commit to set off on another goal that, admittedly, I wonder if I can ever reach: to become a bonafide software engineer.
To make the transition from being a non-technical founder to a technical founder. To take what I have learned before and now learn what it takes.
I am fortunate to still have my dad in my corner. But this time he knows far less about the material than I already do. Success will be as much a battle of willpower as syntax errors. I may ask you for your help along the way.
Or at least a bit of reassurance that I will.')
# I am doing this because I care about people and I am creative; I want to make stuff that makes the world a better place. After two years in Silicon Valley as a startup founder and advisor, I see the power of software to change the world. Now I am committed to learn it - now, it is my business.
As a Christian and an American, I'm proud
The surest way, in my experience, to believe that a person should be free to love who they want and have that love protected under law, is to actually be in love or to have experience such love, and to imagine that your love would not be equally protected under the law. As a Christian and an American, I'm thrilled that our country has finally extended equal rights to gay and lesbian couples. Today is a historic day for us all.
Excellent time giving a talk last week to seminar at Earthquake Epicenter in SF.
Amazing time last week with 25 folks at fireside potluck #6 on productivity.
"There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives."
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
In our nation’s most trying moments, we step forward together.
I’m proud of my friend Ann and the tens of thousands of others who offered space in their homes to folks in need in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing.
Inspiring.
I am touched by the heartfelt prayers that many friends offered after the Boston Marathon bombing last week.
How to Scale Yourself
How's it going? Good! Just busy. Yah? Me too. So busy. That's good! Sound familiar?
The constant hum of modern life can be distracting at best, overwhelming more often. Many friends turn to lengthy episodes of quiet and disconnection to restore balance: 10 day silence retreats, meditation get-aways, stay-cations.
I find as much joy in spending time in the wild as the next person. But I also prefer balance with smaller deviation. What ignominious habits in your life would necessitate you to keep your mouth shut for 1/3 a month in order to restore equilibrium?
How do other people with demanding schedules get by (and thrive)? This question intrigues me. Recently, in a correspondence with Sree Sreenivasan, the Chief Digital Officer at Columbia University, I learned a few lessons.
Here's how Sree scales himself and monetizes himself.
Context: intro'd to Sree from a mutual friend, looking to help him build ongoing engagement after his events using inthis. Currently, he sees huge post-event decline.
FIRST
After a few short emails back and forth establishing relevancy, he sent me this: thanks. my sked: http://sree.net/sked
This sent me to his personal site, where I saw his online calendar and time slots blocked out for office hours. SECOND
Site instructed me to submit appt request in very particular manner, with subject of email as: APPT: 4/15 9pm EST Kevin F. Adler (inthis) subject in email
Body of email:
brainstorm how SMwknd and other similar events could avoid post-event fall-off in engagement, potentially through inthis.co platform or learnings of Kevin F. Adler (sociologist entrepreneur: heykfa.com/about)
Kevin
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his response, probably first 5 words he wrote, and the rest canned:
cool. call me at [redacted] meanwhile, would love to get your help getting folks to this event - they can be anywhere in the world (discounts for groups of 5 or more; also for alumni; and for anyone who's taken a Columbia workshop with me before). Because of the time difference, many people who sign up miss the live session, but access the video recording and the online coaching. @SREE'S SOCIAL MEDIA WORKSHOP NYC IN-PERSON & ONLINE FROM ANYWHERE: Social Media One-night Stand - advanced social media workshop, Thursday, May 16, 2013 (includes two weeks of online coaching, taught w/ @wordwhacker & @travelogged). Details: http://bit.ly/cjsm2013b #cjsm - INTERMEDIATE and ADVANCED LEVELS. [sample tweet] May 16 is Social Media One-night Stand, @Sree's @ColumbiaJourn advanced workshop you can take from anywhere : http://bit.ly/cjsm2013b #cjsm See what happened in the Seattle version of this on March 18: http://bit.ly/sreeattletips
Pretty effective, it seems. He got me to write about his event, at least.
Anyone have a different approach that works?
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
In William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, Act III, Scene iii - Ulysses, speaking to Achilles
Published on The Huffington Post.
When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.
A Time to Talk, by Robert Frost