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Re: Customer Support + Product Registration is my favorite circle of user experience hell

Havi Brooks (and duck) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:18:03 -0000

I like you so much.

That's probably the worst comment in the world but I have nothing to add to the above statement except this increasingly awkward disclaimer.

Re: Don’t Read This Post Because Of The Title

Havi Brooks (and duck) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:29:55 -0000

Wow, there's nothing better than reading a thoughtful, insightful take on something that everyone is talking *around*, but not meeting directly.

This is a sweet, touching piece, and the most beautiful thing about it is its sincerity of heart where it could have totally gone to sarcasm and bitterness, where a lot of us might have taken it.

You're describing something complex and not always pretty, but you're talking about it with love. Which makes you one of those human faces that internet people talks about while plotting ways to "seem" more "authentic" and "transparent".

It seems as though someone who couldn't sense a true sincerity of heart behind this piece would have to be someone for whom sincerity has no value, or someone who has spent too much time avoiding this quality to recognize it.

So far "internet fame" (whatever that is) has brought me more awe and wonder as well, but who knows, maybe some day I'll be less inclined to marvel and more to think that everyone's just working the system.

Re: The Blogs That Inspire Me

Havi Brooks (and duck) — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:50:52 -0000

Gah! My duck and I could not be more flattered to appear on your list, Steve.

You're one of the real sincere thinkers that I've had the pleasure to encounter online, and this is totally an honor.

Fascinated by the new direction you're taking ... can't wait to see what interesting stops happen on the way. *blows kiss*

Re: Dealing With Distractions

Havi Brooks (and duck) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:08:29 -0000

Wow, Cristina, I love how you're applying this stuff! Just the fact that you're noticing when you're in resistance and not being impressed by it or guilting yourself about it is HUGE. That you're modeling that for other people on your blog -- in a world of beating ourselves up in public -- is just inspiring and cool.

Awesome.

Re: On a personal note…

Havi Brooks (and duck) — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:56:19 -0000

Look at you ... modeling honesty and intensity and passion! What a relief to know that even the experts fall apart ... instead of having to say "Oh boy, I could never be like HER", we get to say "Wow, if she can find ways to share how she interacts with difficult times so can I ..."

And then when you've turned the corner and are all fabulously successful, we'll know that you really truly get it.

Yay Cristina, is all I have to say. Hang in there, honey. And take care of yourself.
xo

Re: Launching a Life

Havi Brooks (and duck) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:46:31 -0000

Whooooooooooooooooooo!

That is all.

Re: - inthefade: Words to live by. Seen today at the...

Havi Brooks (and duck) — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:45:16 -0000

Whoah, the Exploratorium. Good times. Also, I love Saroyan. Also, I love this tumblr stuff. Genius.

Re: Dance vs. Brain: FIGHT!

Havi Brooks (and duck) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:33:49 -0000

Wanted to add that one of the weird/uncanny effects of doing Shiva Nata is that it brings soooooo much awareness to how you move. And doing it can really bring attention to just how many movements you (I mean, all of us) do in sort of a rote way.

Something I've experimented with ...

I teach an exercise in some of my workshops where we do five minutes of freeform dance, five minutes meditation, five minutes Shiva Nata, five minutes meditation, five minutes freeform dance, five minutes meditation.

And in the second set of freeform dance, everyone finds that they're doing completely different movements, and also that they have an easier time "surprising" themselves by letting their bodies do something new and unexpected.

In terms of your smart question, yeah! Every time you challenge a pattern in one plane (for example, your free-form dance), you're making space to let patterns shift in other areas. In your brain, but also in your relationships/encounters with people, concepts, time, space, etc.

The only other thing I'd add to that is that the value of "challenging a pattern" is so strong that even thinking about challenging the pattern without taking action on it is actually already challenging the pattern.

Because you're bringing conscious awareness to your thought process, which is naturally going to spiral out into everything else. Yay, brains.

far-away hug!

Re: The Holy Grail: How to Outsource the Inbox and Never Check Email Again

Havi Brooks (and duck) — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:47:51 -0000

Thanks for the template and the "you're not the only person in the world who can sort stuff" kick in the pants. Very useful.

Now just to deal with the emotional addiction aspects ...

Question: one of your rules involved email templates set up in gmail. I've given my team a document of templates but it would be nice to just have them all in one place. How are you approaching this with gmail? (drafts? google docs?).

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Man, you'd have to ask my VA! I would be apt to have them in drafts, which is what I do with personal templates.

Tim

Re: Speak… easy? The Grandmas weigh in.

Havi Brooks (and duck) — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:24:05 -0000

Oh boy.

I LOVE this post.

My grandmothers do the same thing. Except with more yiddish thrown in.

Man, those lucky people who get to learn from you.