illana burk
@illanaburk.bsky.social
Business & Leadership Coach for good humans, pod host of Good Business, mom to a rad kid. And I live in Portugal, which is quite lovely.
Illanaburk.com
Find me on Substack, Medium, and whatever other bandwagon I'm trying and failing to avoid.
Illanaburk.com
Find me on Substack, Medium, and whatever other bandwagon I'm trying and failing to avoid.
It has been so very long since anyone in our government was worthy of pride. This moment will matter for a very very long time.
April 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
It has been so very long since anyone in our government was worthy of pride. This moment will matter for a very very long time.
Who do you really really hope is not secretly an asshole?
March 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Who do you really really hope is not secretly an asshole?
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Let us summon the old gods.
March 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Let us summon the old gods.
Goal of the week: figure out how to only work three days a week. I’ve been at four for over a decade. Three sounds good.
People ask how I did it all the time. Here’s the secret: You block it out on your calendar.
That’s it. That’s the secret.
People ask how I did it all the time. Here’s the secret: You block it out on your calendar.
That’s it. That’s the secret.
March 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Goal of the week: figure out how to only work three days a week. I’ve been at four for over a decade. Three sounds good.
People ask how I did it all the time. Here’s the secret: You block it out on your calendar.
That’s it. That’s the secret.
People ask how I did it all the time. Here’s the secret: You block it out on your calendar.
That’s it. That’s the secret.
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When Meta blocked me from commenting or posting on Threads and commenting on Insta women got the message out other ways.
Waking up to a viral quote is wild.
Waking up to a viral quote is wild.
February 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
When Meta blocked me from commenting or posting on Threads and commenting on Insta women got the message out other ways.
Waking up to a viral quote is wild.
Waking up to a viral quote is wild.
What do you do when you say something clever/interesting/funny in a comment thread that no one will really see? Do you post it again as its own post? Is that immediately weird? My need for more public witnessing of my pithy wit is bigger than I thought. I'll see myself out.
January 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
What do you do when you say something clever/interesting/funny in a comment thread that no one will really see? Do you post it again as its own post? Is that immediately weird? My need for more public witnessing of my pithy wit is bigger than I thought. I'll see myself out.
While we argued about what can and should be said or not said, how to care about all the right things correctly, and what was supposed to matter most when everything matters SO MUCH, the ignorant, hateful, nationalistic masses laughed at our pretense... illanaburk.substack.com/p/i-dont-rea...
I don’t really love social media, but I’m also not leaving
Social media is a mess.
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January 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
While we argued about what can and should be said or not said, how to care about all the right things correctly, and what was supposed to matter most when everything matters SO MUCH, the ignorant, hateful, nationalistic masses laughed at our pretense... illanaburk.substack.com/p/i-dont-rea...
It is not humanly possible to express the degree to which I do not care about Oscar nominations. Read the room, people.
January 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
It is not humanly possible to express the degree to which I do not care about Oscar nominations. Read the room, people.
It's cool. I'm sure we'll just figure shit out ourselves when people start dropping dead in the streets. edition.cnn.com/2025/01/21/h...
Trump administration directs federal health agencies to pause communications | CNN
Amid a deluge of executive actions, the Trump administration has directed federal health agencies to pause external communications, such as regular scientific reports, updates to websites and health a...
edition.cnn.com
January 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
It's cool. I'm sure we'll just figure shit out ourselves when people start dropping dead in the streets. edition.cnn.com/2025/01/21/h...
And still... Wild creativity. youtu.be/MOEULOSVNK4?...
OK Go - A Stone Only Rolls Downhill (Official Video)
YouTube video by OK Go
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January 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
And still... Wild creativity. youtu.be/MOEULOSVNK4?...
I'm so glad that in a city where more than a hundred thousand people are under evacuation order and thousands have lost their homes that the news has made sure we all know exactly where Ben Affleck is at all times. Phew.
January 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I'm so glad that in a city where more than a hundred thousand people are under evacuation order and thousands have lost their homes that the news has made sure we all know exactly where Ben Affleck is at all times. Phew.
I am always amazed when people who live in regions where there are entire seasons and areas named after natural disasters (hello 'Tornado Alley') are gobsmacked that people would choose to live in beautiful cultural centers where disasters like LA happen once in a lifetime.
January 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I am always amazed when people who live in regions where there are entire seasons and areas named after natural disasters (hello 'Tornado Alley') are gobsmacked that people would choose to live in beautiful cultural centers where disasters like LA happen once in a lifetime.
Knitting: where you spend $200 and 100 hours to make a sweater that looks like it's 30 years old. Sign me up.
December 25, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Knitting: where you spend $200 and 100 hours to make a sweater that looks like it's 30 years old. Sign me up.
In case anyone was wondering what the FTIC was for; without it, when banks go under, your money goes with it.
So they literally want to create pathway where banks face zero repercussions for stealing from average people.
What could go wrong?
So they literally want to create pathway where banks face zero repercussions for stealing from average people.
What could go wrong?
The FDIC is funded through fees assessed to banks based on the level of risk they pose. Abolishing it would save the federal government $0, but it would save banks a boatload. Only downside, of course, is the risk that those banks go belly up and take regular people's money with them. No biggie.
“Trump advisers and officials from his newfound Department of Government Efficiency have, for example, asked whether the president-elect could abolish the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp”
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
December 16, 2024 at 8:17 PM
In case anyone was wondering what the FTIC was for; without it, when banks go under, your money goes with it.
So they literally want to create pathway where banks face zero repercussions for stealing from average people.
What could go wrong?
So they literally want to create pathway where banks face zero repercussions for stealing from average people.
What could go wrong?
That parenting feeling when you do something weird to make your kid happy and think you're awesome at parenting and then six months later you're doing it for the 7864th time and you realize that this is just your life now and you scream quietly until it's over.
December 16, 2024 at 8:12 PM
That parenting feeling when you do something weird to make your kid happy and think you're awesome at parenting and then six months later you're doing it for the 7864th time and you realize that this is just your life now and you scream quietly until it's over.
Tornado in Nor Cal. I'm sure that's fine.
December 16, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Tornado in Nor Cal. I'm sure that's fine.
I wish I wanted anything as much as LinkedIn wants me to try Premium again.
December 12, 2024 at 8:26 AM
I wish I wanted anything as much as LinkedIn wants me to try Premium again.
Stopped posting on Twitter a decade ago = 2k+ followers. Stopped posting on TikTok two months ago = 1k+ followers. Post regularly on Instagram for ten years? 423 followers. I have no idea what to make of that.
December 11, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Stopped posting on Twitter a decade ago = 2k+ followers. Stopped posting on TikTok two months ago = 1k+ followers. Post regularly on Instagram for ten years? 423 followers. I have no idea what to make of that.
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Now do Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard & Kash Patel.
BREAKING: In an unprecedented move, more than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of the Department of Health and Human Services.
It's the first time in history that Nobel laureates have come together to oppose a Cabinet choice.
It's the first time in history that Nobel laureates have come together to oppose a Cabinet choice.
December 9, 2024 at 10:32 PM
Now do Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard & Kash Patel.
I own a business and I work four days a week and take December mostly off (and have for more than a decade). Just in case someone might like to know that that's totally doable. When people ask how I pulled that off, my answer is: I just stopped working Fridays. And no one noticed. The end.
December 10, 2024 at 9:01 AM
I own a business and I work four days a week and take December mostly off (and have for more than a decade). Just in case someone might like to know that that's totally doable. When people ask how I pulled that off, my answer is: I just stopped working Fridays. And no one noticed. The end.
@zapier-ai.bsky.social has decided to change their refund policy to, "Sorry, we don't do refunds under any circumstances." I missed canceling by two days because the singular email reminder they sent went to my spam folder. Oh, and the price went up - for a service I no longer use. Nice.
December 4, 2024 at 8:47 PM
@zapier-ai.bsky.social has decided to change their refund policy to, "Sorry, we don't do refunds under any circumstances." I missed canceling by two days because the singular email reminder they sent went to my spam folder. Oh, and the price went up - for a service I no longer use. Nice.
It's a coup! Oh wait. Nevermind. We'll go ahead and keep democracy.
South Koreans celebrate as the military leave the National Assembly after it voted to block martial law 190-0.
December 4, 2024 at 9:42 AM
It's a coup! Oh wait. Nevermind. We'll go ahead and keep democracy.
How does one become a 'philosopher'? Like, do you just wake up one day and are like, "I have philosophies now. So I'm a philosopher."? I think about this in the shower a lot.
December 4, 2024 at 9:34 AM
How does one become a 'philosopher'? Like, do you just wake up one day and are like, "I have philosophies now. So I'm a philosopher."? I think about this in the shower a lot.