I started a new job last week! As I was starting to learn the ropes, and then reflecting on my experience over the weekend, I thought about this blog. I wanted to write about how exhilarating/intimidating/exhausting/difficult it is to learn something new, and share that it’s important to cut ourselves…
Today, I’m comin’ atcha with something a little different: my experience randomizing into a COVID vaccine trial. I want to share this to remove some of the mystery of the process and, in doing so, hopefully encourage more people to participate, as well as point out some serious shortcomings. When…
Let’s talk about permission marketing. Again. Back in February (which feels like a lifetime ago), I wrote about a local entrepreneur who sent me three emails a day, hustling their services. Last week, something similar—but decidedly different—happened. I got an email from one of my LinkedIn connections sent via an…
It’s hurricane season for the Atlantic, which means that many areas are turning their attention and their resources to preparation and response efforts. This is important and urgent work. My last post rant about work/life boundaries didn’t mention this, but I wanted to address it this week: while a lot…
Can we talk about boundaries? I often write about work/life balance, vacation travel, self care, and related rants, but I feel like I need to address something more basic, maybe because so many more people—entire organizations, even—now live at work work from home. I keep a list of topics to…
At the beginning of the year, I created a clothing spending tracker so that I can monitor my shopping behavior in order to better manage my spending on new clothing. Thanks to a bit of a spending spree in January that I justified because it was my birthday month, I…
I’ve been a “regular” at a lot of places over the course of my life. Growing up, my family loved this one Mexican restaurant by our house that was always changing names, and we usually sat in the same corner booth. In college, I always got coffee and a bagel…
I’ve been thinking about perfectionism and how it relates to procrastination a lot lately. Maybe not just lately—it’s something I constantly struggle with. Just the other day, someone in a Facebook group I’m in asked for tips on how to just start when you’re paralyzed by the fact that you…
Do you listen to music while you work? If I remember to, I find it really helpful. But the type of music I select is so important for getting in the zone. For mindless tasks or some upbeat background music I love oldies. The local oldies station was always was…
A few weeks ago, I shared two things you can change in your job announcements in an effort to adopt more inclusive and equitable hiring practices. Today, I want to share a very real example of something that I did to help a colleague advance within my organization when I…
