We’re all familiar with the question we’re asked whenever we download a new app: “This app would like to send you “push notifications” – “allow” or “don’t allow.” Every time I have to answer this question, I carefully consider what I’ll do. I usually select “don’t allow” because I don’t like having my concentration [Read More]
To the Dot Complicated community:
First, I want to share how gratifying it has been for me to watch the DotComplicated community growing and generating so much great thought and provocative conversation. I truly feel we’re all pioneers in the digital domain, with the common goal of making it a safe, interesting, and desirable place to inhabit. Together we’re shaping a [Read More]
Facebook was developed by teenagers, for teenagers and I wonder if it, and its cousins Pinterest, Twitter, Reddit and Google+, are not turning us all into adolescents. Adults conduct their social interactions differently than teens and young adults but social media invites us to sound like our youthful selves. Social media [Read More]
Celebrity photographer George Lange shares 4 tips on creating unforgettable photos.
I’ve been taking photographs since I was seven years old. My camera has taken me all over the world. Photography, I’ve learned, can be an excuse to say things you would edit out of normal conversation, do things you would normally hold back from doing. [Read More]
I just returned from beautiful San Francisco, and I thought I was pretty on top of technology. However, after spending time with my SF friends I realized that there are many “hidden technology gems” that are popular in the Silicon Valley tech world that I knew nothing about!
My favorite new “hidden gem” is TaskRabbit, a [Read More]
If the only thing I told my kids about sex was to use protection, would you think me a good parent? If I had never said more about drugs than, “Stay away,” would that have been alright? Then why is it okay that the only thing I told my kids about social media [Read More]
I once spent my days in a cubicle neighborhood in the Seattle office of an international consulting firm. It was a good gig with challenging, if not always interesting, work and a clear path for advancement. Naturally, when I got pregnant I planned to keep working indefinitely. However, once my little bundle of joy and [Read More]
Goals: We make them, we break them. It’s easy to make the decision to change your behavior, only to regress once some actual work is involved. Everyone has something they’re trying to change about themselves, whether it’s exercising more, flossing daily, journaling continuously or giving up certain guilty pleasures.
My vice was cherry Diet Coke. [Read More]
The kitchen has been my arch nemesis for as long as I can remember. Well, I take that back. Three of my most beloved items have always lived in the kitchen: refrigerator, microwave and toaster oven (definitely in that order). I’ve always loved the art of eating but have been too paralyzed with fear [Read More]
All my life I’ve loved to make things. While other little girls played with Barbie dolls and learned how to put their hair in ponytails, I sorted through my massive Lego collection, building structures without any particular roadmap. As I got older, the Legos stayed behind with my younger brothers while I went off [Read More]
