I’ve never liked the question, “How are you?”For one, it’s an empty greeting. Most people who ask don’t care about the response.Second, it’s the most...
Stop me if this sounds familiar: You’re in a meeting at work listening to a colleague present an idea. In the middle of their pitch, they mention som...
I’ve recently been thinking a lot about “in flux” stages at work. Maybe you have new people joining, senior people leaving, a shift of product focus,...
How you end big projectsWe hosted our annual USV CEO Summit at this week. In its aftermath, I thought I’d take a few minutes to write about the “deno...
Back in college, I used to do this crazy thing every year called Dance Marathon. Here’s the premise: Dance for 3o hours with 800 other students on ca...
My husband and I have a blind cat who needs eye drops twice a day. Sometimes he’s home to give her eye drops. Sometimes I am. But it has become a cho...
About this Series: There’s a list of questions that I get asked a lot about my career and my job, so I’ve decided to turn these into a short series o...
The fear of losing out (on friends)About six months ago, I got pretty depressed that all of my friends were either pregnant or had recently had babie...
I’ve always had a pretty big problem with this one.As soon as somebody says, “You can’t do that,” my immediate instinctual reaction is as follows: “O...
Notre-Dame has always been more than just a building.It’s a cathedral, yes. But even for the non-religious, this Parisian landmark holds its own as a...
