Courage
The death of a future story you’ve been telling yourself
We all tell ourselves stories about our future. Some are our own, and some are forced upon us. It’s always hard to go through the death of a future story.
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Communication
Your perfectionism may be driving your employees to mediocrity. Don’t rewrite their work.
Your perfectionism may be driving your employees to mediocrity. Don’t rewrite their work.
Career
Don’t hire me to make your employees better at enduring a terrible workplace
Let’s stop patting people on the back for resilience when they’re in a system that’s designed to crush them. Let’s stop crushing them instead.
Career
If you’re quiet quitting, you are part of a long and honored tradition of choosing mediocrity
Quiet quitting has been around since the first boss held the first post-mortem after a failed mammoth hunt. Let’s talk about workforce dropouts instead.
Career
How being 100% certain of your own logic creates unnecessary workplace conflict, and what you can do about it
Unnecessary workplace conflict is often the result of people digging in to entrenched positions. Here’s how to disentrench and seek solutions.
Career
Take control of your career by not doing the things you already aren’t doing
If you feel guilty about always feeling behind schedule, take control of your career and stop doing all those things you’re already not doing.
Life
This post, like me, will start out strong but struggle through the middle, gasping its way to the finish
Life isn’t a marathon or a sprint. It’s a series of sprints, jogs, saunters, rests, backtracks, and wrong turns. Start out strong but stick with it.
Career
Is your favorite self-improvement guru a fraud?
Most self-improvement gurus are not frauds, but don’t assume that because their method works for you, it works for everyone. There are so many to choose from.
Gender
Why cisgender people should share their pronouns
As a cis gender man, I share my pronouns because of what a nonbinary teen taught me that no amount of diversity training ever did.
Uncategorized
Life is short, and there’s plenty of time. Make the most of today.
Life is short, and there’s plenty of time. Here’s what changed my life eight years ago and taught me to make the most of every day.