Invisible Labor
I’m at the airport Starbucks watching a miracle happen in real time. Not the coffee, the labor. A barista takes […]
Target Panic
LAST POST before you take over my programming through the end of next week… so let’s talk about TARGET PANIC!
Writing and Work Travel
I’m about to pull off my favorite kind of professional alchemy: turning mostly remote life into four days of in-person
CORPORATE TAROT: The Scope Shapeshifter 🔮
It’s Friday again, and I now have this habit locked in… time for another Corporate Tarot Pull. This week’s card???
The High-Performer “Premium”
I used to make in-app purchases at work. Not the fun kind. The kind where you “unlock”: More responsibility, less
BEWARE the Story Culture
Tuesday, April 12, 2015: 4:47 p.m.We’re two weeks behind on a launch. A dependency is blocked. The risk log is
Desire as a KPI
The weirdest workplace KPI is desire. You can’t put it in a dashboard, but you can feel it in your
Good can be Good Enough if you Let it
Burnout recovery has one requirement nobody brags about on LinkedIn: you have to get comfortable being… ordinary. Not “bad at
CORPORATE TAROT: The Invincible Summer 🔮
The card you pull when you’re doing everything “right”… and somehow your reward is more work and a slow-moving personality
Promote To: LIKED!
I didn’t learn leadership first. I learned likability. For a long time, I treated being liked like workplace insurance. If