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#Canadian #technology #entrepreneur, angel #investor, #musician, #consultant, #mentor, #queer #transgender woman and funder of my son’s #filmmaking career. Accepting offers on my #Tesla #swasticar to reduce my #shame.
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Oh they have their place, but SUMPRODUCT()… oh yeah.
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Woohoo! 💜
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The sadist in me wants to start shipping bags of ketchup chips to you monthly. 😂
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It was a great time… stay longer!
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Maybe I should make myself useful.
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Hey. I got those ketchup chips for you, Jane, and Sepi… I thought Americans loved that shit! 😆
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Of course, going forward, there must be a queer / trans cinema filmmaker summit in Vancouver every June.
#FromTheBalcony2025
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I am a trans woman and the father of an amazing 22 year old son.
Being a father isn’t about gender. It’s about a parental role.
When I came out to him when he was eight, he listened patiently, and then asked one question:
"Can I still call you 'Dad'?"
For this I've received unconditional love.
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^ I concur.
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What single? I tried listening to the new album and it was like nails on a chalkboard…I think I made it through three songs.
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The hot takes on Castration Movie are going to be a cottage industry.
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When I was in Montreal recovering from my GRS, I couldn’t stop thinking about how many trans people didn’t make it that far.
People would say to me post-surgery, “You must feel great!”
For the first couple of days, I mostly felt intense sadness thinking about those who didn’t make it.
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As you know… everyone experiences dysphoria in different ways. Some feel body dysmorphia so strongly that the desire for surgical change on specific timeline becomes existential.
Not surprised that they add some sort of comment like that in the surgery wait time notice.
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4. I don’t consider any action I have to take as being impossible. It just becomes something I need to go research and figure out.
5. Having clarity on my options and goals is a huge relief to my stress and anxiety levels.
If you, like everyone, struggle with being stuck, give this exercise a try.
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2. Options are generally big enough and hairy enough that I can’t do them all. Often they are mutually exclusive for the timeframe I am working with. The matrix helps me decide which to choose.
3. Building the matrix is enlightening: I will always discover at least one option I hadn’t considered.
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That gives me a stack rank for my options as they relate to my goals that maximize my happiness.
Some key considerations:
1. I assume that if I don’t know how to do something, someone else has done it and I can ask them to help.
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Then I calculate the value of each option to achieving each goal where Value = (Benefit / Cost * Risk) * Happiness
I end up with a table where the sum total of each row tells me the total value of each option.
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I can then build a matrix with my options (and their associated actions), give each a subjective weight of 1…5 for its cost, benefit, and my likelihood of success associated to *each* goal.
I can also weight my goals as they relate to my overall happiness.
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If I need to do three key actions to hit a goal, then those three actions are a collection for one option.
Costs and benefits can be financial, emotional, effort, or time-based.
Risk is just a probability of success for each option.
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The options are “significant actions I can take that are critical to reaching my goals”
Each option has a cost, a benefit, and a risk associated to each goal.
An option can be a collection of activities or actions.
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One of the un-sticking tools I learned came out of strategic decision-making tools taught in my MBA class: a weighted decision matrix.
A decision matrix enables me to assess my options on the Y-axis against my goals on the X-axis.
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The longer we feel stuck, the more we lose hope for a better future.
And of course, every channel of information we are exposed to is telling us that it’s getting worse for everyone.
It’s easy to feel like we have no control over our lives. But that isn’t true.
I propose a little exercise:
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It seems to be popular with Christians, women named Karen, and young men ages 18-34.