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The "Yes" Robot
I'm a people person. According to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, I'm an ENFP (extroverted, intuitive, feeling, perceiving). My top...
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Aug 31, 20213 min read


Failure is a State of Being
About five years ago I left a successful corporate career to make the world a better place. Some people thought I was crazy. Others were...
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Aug 31, 20213 min read


The Loneliness Epidemic
Whenever I think of loneliness, the Five Bears in the Bed song from Sesame Street starts to play in my head. It's a perfect parable of...
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Aug 31, 20212 min read


The Everyday Underdog
There's this thing called the Underdog Effect. It's all this psychology around why we have a cultural fondness for underdogs. It points...
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Aug 31, 20212 min read


F@uck Rape Culture
As I'm typing, I can feel the fire rising from deep within me. I feel such rage, disappointment and vulnerability with crap like this....
kirstenhelgeson
Aug 31, 20213 min read


Save the World By Cooking
I've always loved to cook, and was lucky to have a mom that let me experiment in the kitchen as a kid (and a dad that would eat...
kirstenhelgeson
Aug 18, 20213 min read
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