- Writing songs and performing them while sweating in front of a room of accomplished songwriters.
- Writing about your life and foibles in a blog.
- Telling everyone about your Amazon interview, even though it is highly possible that you won’t get the job, further confirmation of loser status.
- Signing up to lead a project for a non-profit in politics that you’re on the board of when you don’t know shit about politics.
- Cold-calling apparel manufacturers to see if they will let you come for a factory visit as market research for a startup in a space you know very little about.
- Emailing people you haven’t seen in 20 years to organize meeting up with them in DC later this week.
- Oh, and my most favorite most mortifying moment of my day – hanging a note on the building door of a guy you met while doing laundry and exchanged all of a few sentences with and whom you later saw in a coffee shop and ignored / hid from. Why yes, I’m a crazy psycho-bitch stalker. Thanks for asking. Now I can’t leave my apartment. Great.
Yup, these are some things I did today.
Oh yeah, and then there’s real vulnerability, which I’m not even close to touching yet…