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Passes the Turing Test, every. single. time.
Oakland, CA.
There's no way around it: Buying a home is difficult. In Texas, they say finding, financing, and finally moving is like trying to solve a greased Rubix cube while riding in the bed of a pickup truck.
Fun fact! The purple mountains noted for their majesty in the song " America the Beautiful" are none other than Colorado's own Rocky Mountains ( Pikes Peak, specifically). This mountain range traces an iconic contour between the land and the sky for 3,000 miles from New Mexico to Canada, but there is no other place that celebrates the Rockies (and The Rockies) quite like Denver.
LAST REVIEWED Jul 27 2022 7 MIN READ By The Human Interest Team + Independent Freelance Contributor* In times past, both employers and employees viewed a pension or retirement plan as a given part of their business arrangement. In exchange for years of service, the convention held that a worker could expect years of financial security-supported partly by their employer-during retirement.
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If you were ever inclined to dig into the academic legacy of the process for rendering human DNA "fingerprints" using gel electrophoresis (and who isn't?), you will find my grandfather, Bob Hunter, was a major contributor.
Congratulations on the new place! Whether you're a first-time homeowner or you've done it all before, getting ready for a move is a super-exciting (and massively stressful) undertaking. Though it's considered one of the most stressful events of modern life, remember that the hassle of moving into a new house is balanced by joy and excitement for the adventure of relocation.
Most people in the United States are familiar with the story of Rosa Parks, but just in case, a refresher: Parks is a household name because she symbolized one of the many breaking points in the racial tension in the American South in the 1950s, and the blatant discrimination against her was evident.
Ghost-written letter in lieu of wedding vows tells the story of the bride's love for the groom in her own voice, using inside jokes and shared history.
Human Resources and People Operations writing samples
How People Ops pros navigate the treacherous (and make it seem effortless*)
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are difficult to topics to address in tech. These samples showcase documentation and presentations I have created on the topic of unconscious bias.
Excerpt from onboarding documentation.
Love in words: Vow Muse and Heart of California Matchmaking
Matchmaking is the beautiful middle ground between the "meet-and-marry" system and the "1,000 useless dates" method. Modern matchmakers use all the data tricks of online dating platforms, but we add a crucial element: the human touch. I bet in 100 years we'll laugh at our foolishness to let data
"I'm not looking for anything serious" is a preemptive strike. It's an "out" lurking in the fine print. With online dating and hookup culture in general, the social contracts of kindness and transparency are not presupposed and can be nullified at any time, without warning.
It's not often we get to trot out a ten dollar word like sacrosanct, but when we learned that in a recently released documentary, the Pope Francis gave his conceptual blessing to same-sex unions, we knew we had to cash in on this opportunity.
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We all expected this to be a meaningful year. An election! The Olympics! The census! Even a look at the numbers was kind of exciting: a once-in-a-century repeating pattern (see ya' later, 1919!); plus, for the poet in all of us, " 2020" is a symbolic wink at "perfect," also known as "20/20" vision.
For generations of Americans, the single most potent symbol of having "made it" is homeownership. It symbolizes financial salience, stability, independence, and permanence. If you take that logic and amplify it, one-up the financial salience and boost the independence, the next step up is homeownership off the grid: your land, your house, your terms! Do you dream of this lifestyle?
A comfy chair. A good book. The sun warms your face as you gaze through crystal clear, low-emissivity, argon-padded, double-glazed windows. You watch the wind dance in the treetops nearby; you sink into your surroundings. A sunroom is a whole room dedicated to making moments like this happen.
Silicon Valley is a place where the gap between what is merely possible and what is real is always shrinking.
Some people are natural list-makers. It's in the DNA of certain types to refine, categorize, and streamline all of life's projects and processes. Some of you may already have a pen and paper in hand, ready to pepper your current projects with to-dos from this article!
To be alive in the first part of the 21st century is to be surrounded by astonishing and fabulous gadgets. Since the mid-1940s, we've seen giant, house-sized computers shrink to the size of a fingertip. While the footprint of these machines has diminished, their influence has increased exponentially, and we are now surrounded by smart devices with the ability to "talk" to each other.
As the timeframe for social distancing stretches into the future, many of us have been fortunate enough to become very, very familiar with the places we call home. For some, the lockdown has resulted in an unforeseen interest in projects like decluttering and snacking.
Just a few months ago, a storyline about shopping for and buying a house without ever actually seeing it would be unbelievable. The tale of a terrible pandemic that disrupts nearly every aspect of everyday life and forces people to buy homes remotely would seem more like a strange dream or a work of dark, dystopian real-estate fiction.
End of Life. Note: when commissioned to write eulogies and obituaries, I do not post them publicly.
This guide covers the process of writing an obituary or eulogy. Topics span the practical to the ideological.
Eulogy written to celebrate the life of Jags, a lovable chunk of a dog who died unexpectedly.