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Overshare Shame Spiral
That weird place between inappropriate digital overshare and no response
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Orla Fitz
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March 2022
Technology's potential to enhance the best of our nature instead of inflaming the worst
Probably the biggest battle for productivity is fighting the barrage of psychologically manipulative social technologies that have been designed to make…
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Orla Fitz
2
February 2022
The work battle is not the same for everyone
Sometimes we forget that the world of work has been created by a very small percentage of predominantly privileged white men. When we read the stories…
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Orla Fitz
A platform to discover the other side of the story
I really love when I hear a story from a perspective I had not considered before. Even if I don't agree with it, understanding where that person is…
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Orla Fitz
The myth of happiness and building mental safety nets
No one has their sh*t together. Happiness is the wrong goal. The more I read and think about it, the more I am aware that it is just a fleeting emotion…
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Making facts and experience great again
I watched the movie Idiocracy years ago on the recommendation of a friend. It is a silly 20's comedy starring Luke Wilson and Rosie Perez. The premise…
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Letting curiosity play to discover passion
The current obsession seems to be with putting ourselves into niches. Nice little buckets to contain us so others can easily understand us before the…
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Dreaming of a Crypto Utopia
Despite understanding and appreciating the value of crypto early on, I've been slow to invest. I was never in the financial position to roll the dice on…
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Orla Fitz
Breaking things just for the sake of it
This morning my daughter bounded up from her cot proud as punch with the cover of her favourite childhood book in her hands. Just the cover. "Look…
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What is more motivating - running towards a goal or running away from what you don't want?
It feels like I have read all of the goalsetting books, articles and done all of the workshops out there yet I still struggle to complete my own…
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Orla Fitz
I need to be clear - how learning Spanish is changing how I communicate
I am revisiting my Spanish course on Duolingo. I love the multilingual voice in my head that sees an object and knows two words for it - it makes…
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Use it or loose it
I had a baby three months ago. Three months seems such a short amount of time. Yet, on my first full web design project back, I found some of my skills…
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