A friend* went to a workshop that the OpEd project runs, whose objective was to teach how to claim and state their opinions so clearly, that they shape the opinions …
Shhh … Don’t Tell My Boss
Being a “slash-career” person, i.e. writer / speaker / researcher / professor, can mean your “boss” is a tyrant-like type who always has a new demand of you, and never …
What Is It You Are Curious About?
Last night, I participated in an event at “the Family”, a startup incubator based in Paris, which is aiming to form an “unfair advantage” for startups in France. A “revolution” …
What Does It Feel To Be Bill Murray?
In Vulture, Bill Murray answers the question of what it feels to be him: “I think if I’m gonna answer that question, because it is a hard question, I’d like …
A Different Tipping Point (1 of 3)
Investing in women is not a new idea. Neither is the now threadbare advice for the aspirational crowd: Girl, if you want to get ahead, get yourself a mentor. But …
Why Love Letters Matter
Over a lunch meeting recently, my colleague lit up as she told me about a recent letter she got. It was written by hand, she said. And thanked her for …
Leading the Life You Want
When Stew Friedman and I first met, he shared his life’s work, to design places of work that work for us humans. We talked long into the night. Last week, …
It’s the little things …
In general, I choose “done > not done”. Or “today > future date”. Many of us who follow this philosophy can credit their career success to it. The people who …
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
After waking up at 2 or 3:00 in the morning, I would write until about 5 or 6:00 am. New How, the first book, was written mostly in the dead …
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