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[Oliverio Gallman]

At the end of the night, an important person from a big business that turns rocks into computers came and talked about the new things they were trying to make and why those things would change the world. I was surprised by this talk because these kinds of businesses are usually very tight-lipped about their work. (Although it makes sense here because MARC is probably a great place for them to find new people to work for them.)

Now, some people from four other businesses are talking to us about the uses of computers tomorrow (and the rocks used to make them). Many more different areas use computers these days, which is why they are suddenly so important now.

Time for another talk by some businesses! This time, we have Analog Devices, Lam Research, and Soitech telling us about how they went from being students to being big, important people at big businesses.

How someone chooses to spend their time says a lot about them. If they put their energy into a particular interest, it can show their level of intelligence, other skills or talents they possess, and even indicate what beliefs, morals, and values the character holds dear. Does your character hunt with a rifle, or a camera? Do they collect artifacts to preserve history, or do they think forward, looking to invent the next trend, style, or big thing?

Whether you are planning a big character piece or a small one, all details should be chosen with care. Make them meaningful, not random. This is how we master subtext, show & tell, and create characters that feel human. ?

Angela is a writing coach, international speaker, and bestselling author who loves to travel, teach, empower writers, and pay-it-forward. She also is a founder of One Stop For Writers, a portal to powerful, innovative tools to help writers elevate their storytelling.

This summer on Code Switch, we're talking to some of our favorite authors about books that taught us about the different dimensions of freedom. In the last installment, we caught up with the romance writer Helen Hoang to talk about sex, love and autism. Today, we're sitting down with the writer Ross Gay.

So many things delight Ross Gay: handmade infinity scarves and loitering, the joy of carrying a heavy bag between two people, paw paws and even weeds. The author and poet began writing daily essays on things that delighted him when he turned 42; those reflections became the basis of his 2019 collection The Book of Delights.

The book is filled with such joy and effusiveness that I find myself revisiting it over and over again. Over the years, it has offered me a template for how to hold the good with the bad, to be more present, and to revel in the little things. This summer, I reread it yet again and found myself meditating on a desire Gay had voiced: wanting to be softer in a world so ready to sharpen us and to make us hard.

So, in a recent interview, I talked to Gay about that desire, as well as the role of joy in daily life, the difficulty of allowing yourself to be moved, and why he thinks it's important to use the word "love." Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.

So I'm writing about joy. The thing is, I'm not exactly sure what joy is. I'm constantly trying to wonder about it. In fact, I'd tell you, that's one little definition of freedom I enjoy: wondering about joy with other people. I am writing because I'm thinking about these moments where I have felt the immense experience of joy.

For instance, I've worked for years on this project called the Bloomington Community Orchard. Within about eight months, we planted this orchard. And since then, it's been cared for by so many people. When we planted that orchard, there was the feeling of watching those trees go into the ground and thinking about all of that labor, all of that care and all of that struggle, too. But I think everyone felt that it would be something that we together could make that might care for people we do not know, and might care for people in the future who we could not imagine.

When I read your book this time, I really sat with what you were saying about wanting to be softer. And I think it offers this roadmap of someone saying, it's OK to love things, and it's OK to feel joy. There is a lot of freedom in that: in finding something delightful, taking time with it and sharing that joy.

I think for any number of reasons, I have wanted to participate in the brutal fantasy of not being movable. I've wanted to imagine myself as a discrete creature that is not movable. You know, I grew up playing college football, and a lot of my training was about how to be unmovable.

But to be moved, it's all kinds of things. It's tears, and it's shock and it's flabbergasting. And it feels like a profound sorrow when I am reluctant to say, I love this, I love this. I've never seen anything as beautiful in my life; that flower gives me a reason to be alive.

I teach, and last year I started class off like this: "Tell me something that was beautiful that you saw on the way to class." And it can be really challenging for people to say it, because it feels vulnerable. Once you've admitted that, you've also admitted that you're movable, which I think also is an admission that you have needs. I'll say, "Say something that you love, that you realize you loved in the last week or so." And not only is it difficult for people, it's amazing how quickly people turn the word "love" into "like": Oh, I like that. And I have to be like, Let's go with love. What did you learn that you love in the last week? Which is to say, What did you learn that you were really moved by in the last week?

I'm telling you! To be like, "I love it when you just touched me on the arm and said, 'Are you OK?'" Or, "I love it when you drop off seeds for the garden." The experience or the understanding of one's need, also puts us into this other thing, which is realizing, Oh, I'm grateful. You know, I think a lot of imaginations of freedom do not hold gratitude. But the fact is that we are constantly in profound need, which makes gratitude a deep and fundamental aspect of our lives.

I invariably end up having to spend a bunch of time looking through my pull requests, tickets,launch emails, design documents, and more. I always end up finding small (and sometimesnot-so-small) things that I completely forgot I did, like:

In addition to just listing accomplishments, in your brag document you can write the narrative explaining the big picture of your work. Have you been really focused on security? On building your product skills & having really good relationships with your users? On building a strong culture of code review on the team?

Many people have told me that it works best for them if they take a few minutes to update their brag document every 2 weeks ago. For me it actually works better to do a single marathon session every 6 months or every year where I look through everything I did and reflect on it all at once. Try out different approaches and see what works for you!

Part 1: write the document: 1-2 hours. Everybody sits down with their laptop, starts lookingthrough their pull requests, tickets they resolved, design docs, etc, and puts together a list ofimportant things they did in the last 6 months.

Thanks to Karla Burnett who I worked with on spreading this idea at work, to Dave Vasilevsky forrunning brag doc writing sessions, to Will Larson who encouraged me to start one of these in thefirst place, to my manager Jay Shirley for always being encouraging & showing me that this is auseful way to work with a manager, and to Allie, Dan, Laura, Julian, Kamal, Stanley, and Vaibhav forreading a draft of this.

As it happens, on this day last year I wrote a new poem. It is a short reflection on two things I was deeply aware of at the time: the appearance of Spring, and the onset of yet another armed conflict on the world stage. The coexistence of these two things is a terrible disjunction. It speaks of a clash, right at the heart of human existence, between beauty and life on the one hand, and suffering and death on the other. Surely war in Springtime is a stark reminder of the ultimate battle between good and evil.

We have entered another season of Lent when Christians across the globe are preparing for Easter. On this day, as I consider the beauty of snowdrops and crocuses in my garden, and the brightness of the still-shy daffodils, I find great encouragement. The flowers sing out to us. They are reminders of the promise that Easter holds. And we need reminders, because we easily forget.

Each year, Easter declares that sorrow and suffering and war are with us for a short time only. They will last just for a season. For, in the ultimate act of love on the cross, Christ has triumphed over evil, and He offers to each one of us the gift of eternal life. This is a new life, full of hope and beauty, a treasure stored up in Heaven that cannot be destroyed or perish or fade.

So today, take a moment to lift your head, to open your tired eyes. Find a Spring flower, even a tiny bud. Stop for a time, just to take a look. Can you see its beauty? This flower is a reminder just for you: hold fast to the promise of Easter! Hold fast to the promise of life!

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Good to have you back Kelle ? it sounds like Doe Bay was a fab experience. As always your words make sense and I for one am grateful to read them,now I need them to settle into my soul,ready for when I need them ? x

I want to hear more. I savoured every word & felt like this was only the beginning, that there was so much more to come. So many of us wish we had the balls to just up & go & experience something so fabulous & life changing so please give us more than just a glimpse into what this week was all about.

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