Learning by osmosis: Or, how toddler learn the rules of slides

Learning the rules of the playground is a formative life skillHow to use a slideI spent an hour today on the playground with my daughter while taking...

Just like before, only different

Letting others help in your kitchen

Giving away work in chunks I've noticed in my professional work that the best managers are ones who know how to look at a project, or the scope ...

How apartment arranging is like product design

I love the process of moving into a new apartment. It’s like a fresh build of a shiny new product. While it’s certainly a lot of work to get everythi...

Keeping pace with your community: How your people keep you on track

IRL networking — why it feels so good to be a part of a group againWhen I first became a mom, in the height of the pandemic in April 2020, it took ma...

Six ways to change the way we think about meetings in a remote era

Four icons we’ve come to know so well this year…Last week I attended an event with speaker Kevin Kruse, CEO of LEADx and author of Employee Engagemen...

The fringe benefits of habit-building

Apparently, rebuilding habits are top of mind for many of us these daysI’ve been running something called the Back to Self Challenge with a cohort of...

Twenty years

(This is a post about September 11. Don’t read it if you don’t want to be reminded.)It’s impossible to forget. Twenty years ago, those of us old enou...

Coming Home: A treatise to the commute

For the past 18 months, there’s been no such thing as “coming home” because we’ve already been there. I didn’t realize until I recently started commu...

How working weird hours can give you more freedom

The always-iconic Sydney Opera House at nightI spent five months in Australia earlier this year and continued to work remotely for Bolster, a U.S. ba...