Nerissa Martin
I'm a writer.
Personal development, front-end development, customer success, customer support, knowledge base articles and screenshots.
Medium
How a Second Brain Can Make You Richer
Anyone who wants to establish multiple sources of income in This Day & Age needs one of these.
If you have or are thinking of starting a side-hustle.
If your main hustle is in jeopardy or you are anxious about finding new sources of income.
If you feel just… stuck-drained-in-a-constant-low-energy-state.
It might be time for you to build a second brain.
What it is
You probably already have some version of a second brain. The ‘second brain’ concept was developed by someone named Tiago Forte. Fo...
justnerissa.medium.com
Better Writing with a Second Brain.
How I catch ideas, create characters, expand my vocabulary, organize projects, and keep notes all in the same place.
A few weeks ago I published a story about making money with a second brain. I wanted to provide some more concrete examples, so in this post, I’m going to demonstrate how I use it as a writer.
As I mentioned in the other article, I use Notion for my digital second brain. The way this app is set up, you can easily organize info into pages (which is just a display of information)...
swaymag.ca
Hair politics
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Why are we all so obsessed with the locks of others?
Even when neo-soul singer India.Arie sang out last year that “I am not my hair,” it seems some people would disagree.
Late in the summer of 2007, Ashley Baker, then associate style editor at Glamour magazine, was invited to speak at a New York law firm on fashion ‘do’s and don’ts’ for women at the office. Among the first few slides was a black woman with an afro. Baker used this example to argue that afros and dreadl...
girltracy.com
Girl Tracy (Novel)
Girl Tracy is a fiction novel. Short synopsis: Tracy has been living with Gemini for years, an alter-ego that she uses in secret to imagine what it would be like to change her life and become a sex worker, if she was brave enough. She finally gets tired of living the lies decides to bring Gemini to life as a contractor at Rosado House.
Now Magazine
Taboo around mental health is slowly changing in Black communities
Over the past 18 years, I've seen about 10 therapists with varying results.
After being told by two therapists that they didn't or couldn't understand my experiences, I started exploring alternatives to traditional treatment.
A few months ago I tried Talkspace, an app that surveys users to match them with therapists. I made sure to say that I wanted to talk about my experiences with racism. All of the therapists I was matched with on the online counseling platform were Black women, only they ...
developer.interac.ca
Community, Collaboration, Conversation and (some) Change
Hi, my name is Nerissa.
Back in June of this year I started at Interac Association/Acxsys Corporation (“Interac®”) as Community Manager. I’d never worked as a ‘community manager’ before, but the job description was a combination of everything I’d ever done in my career that made me happy: creating content, collaborating, researching and keeping a pulse on both the developer and fintech ‘worlds’.
Before joining, I worked as a freelance writer with the proverbial slash and ‘front-end developer’...
developer.interac.ca
UofT Hacks Brings Voice and Tap to INTERAC e-Transfer
Last week, we were at UofT Hacks; a 36-hour hack event where 500 students from (literally) all over the world came to Toronto to collaborate and build using API’s from companies like Google, Microsoft, IBM.
During the event, we gave hackathon attendees access to a beta version of the Interac e-Transfer Public API, specifically the Request Money feature. In more ways than one this hackathon was an important test of a few projects we’ve been working on behind the scenes: a new design for the de...
developer.interac.ca
Elevate Hackathon: Building (and Winning) the Smart City Challenge
We are a couple weeks away from one of the biggest tech festivals in Canada. Elevate is coming, and with it, the Elevate Hackathon happening September 21st-23rd at MaRS.
Yes, Interac is a sponsor of both the festival and the hackathon, but attending is so not (just) about networking to find your next job opportunity. The weekend-long Hackathon is also about building Toronto into a smart city for everyone.
Winning teams are competing for three cash prizes: $10,000 for first place, $5,000 for s...
hub.uberflip.com
A Guide to Creating Content for the Buyer-Customer Journey | Uberflip
Despite its name, the buyer journey is not just about buyers. Once they move from awareness to consideration to decision, buyers become customers. This is the point of the journey.
Medium
How responsive design can be used to target your mobile audience.
Learning how to make a website responsive got me thinking about messaging, of all things. Mainly I started to wonder if the message of a site changes when it goes responsive.