Back when the pandemic was new, I published 7 Simple Rules for Videoconferences, based on my experience with a small hybrid (remote and in-office) team. Check out the whole post at the link, but as a reminder, the seven rules were: Everyone has to use their camera Use one camera…
I’m an optimist. Always have been and probably always will be. But recently, I have been uncharacteristically pessimistic about one thing: this dang pandemic. When it started for us here in the US, I was consulting with a running retailer and race management company. They had a late-May race that…
For those of you who know me personally, you might know that my husband, Richie, is losing his vision due to optic atrophy caused by a rare genetic disease. Since he was diagnosed about a year and a half ago, he has devoured books by people who have lost their…
Are you a morning person? I am. I have trouble waking up, but once I’m up, I’m ready to go. My energy lasts for a while as I power through my morning walk and workout, taking care of some personal tasks, and then starting my workday. In my morning meetings,…
I’ve told you about a time I created more work for myself when I cheated on an essay assignment in high school and a time I let perfect be the enemy of good on what should have been a fun project in middle school. Now I’m back with another blast from…
I took BASIC programming in high school. I wasn’t very good at it, but something that I think about a lot are the IF…THEN structures. Basically (heh), an IF…THEN structure allows you to tell the program that if a certain condition is true, then it needs to execute a certain…
I recently read this thoroughly enjoyable GQ interview with Jason Sudeikis. I recommend reading the whole thing, even if you don’t watch Ted Lasso (I sadly don’t thanks to a lack of Apple TV), but I wanted to share this part: [Sudeikis] acknowledged it had been a hard year. Not…
There’s a part in Steve Martin’s novella Shopgirl where a character (Ray Porter, which Steve Martin plays in the film adaptation) is navigating his kitchen, preparing a meal in the most efficient way possible. (I tried to find it to paste here—no such luck, sorry! Just know that it is…
I was fired from my first job. I was 16, and I worked as a receptionist at my dance studio. I would check tiny ballerinas in for class, collect tuition from parents, and occasionally sell a leotard or a pair of tights. It was a great job for a high…
If you’ve ever had an a-ha moment, where the answer was suddenly clear or you came up with a brilliant new idea, it might have seemed like a lightbulb switched on right over your head. But what had to happen to get that bulb to light up? For me, it…
