One of the great gifts that comes with the work I do is that people share some big and tender questions with me. I’m always humbled by the experience of hearing them, because it’s such a vulnerable thing to open up and share the stuff we are wrestling with. I received an email recently from [...]
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Moving Into Purpose: When Going With the Flow Stops Working
Yesterday, I spoke at Ubizo, a conference for small business owners workshopping business challenges with peers and mentors. This is the written version of the talk I gave, which is a little different than the version I actually gave. I was asked to speak about a challenge I overcame in my entrepreneur’s journey. It’s about [...]
What They Don’t Teach You in Sex Ed
When I was in Grade 9, I had a fantastic science teacher named Mr. Ali, who I remember for his fabulous Indian accent (his rolled r’s in “ribonucleic acid” were unforgettably delicious), large ears, and small stature – and the fact that when we studied the menstrual cycle, he established a rule that only the [...]
How to Make Smart Systems Work for Fallible Humans
I’m a big fan of systems. Especially the ones that promise to help me make fewer mistakes (or at least, learn from my mistakes more quickly), become more efficient, and/or love my life more. I mean, I looooove a good system. I read Gretchen Rubin’s wonderful book, The Happiness Project, and I thought: Finally! A [...]
From Our Ghosts to Your Ghosts: The Gospel of Springsteen
Here is the moment from last night’s Bruce Springsteen concert that I want to remember. He worked the crowd like an old-fashioned revival preacher, at times using the language of church – “Can you feel the spirit? Give me a ‘Yeah!’” – and in other ways more obliquely, walking into the crowd for the laying-on [...]
Transform Your Bucket List with Desired Feelings
I have a bucket list. It has exactly two things on it: See Bruce Springsteen live. Visit the Rothko Chapel. And I’m crossing item #1 off my list tonight. So I think it’s safe to say that the remaining item does not meet the minimum requirements of a “list.” I have friends with great bucket [...]
Who am I to be Creative, Resourceful, and Whole?
I attended a course recently where one of the central tenets we were asked to hold was, “People are naturally creative, resourceful, and whole.” That may seem benign enough to you, but as I sat with the invitation to believe this – really believe it – I realized it was staggeringly hard for me to [...]
Expert Enough: Slaying Imposter Syndrome and Stepping Up to the Mic
I’m at a conference, looking forward to learning from the experts at the front of the room. The topic is right up my alley: something I practice, but want to get better at. The session begins, and twenty minutes later, I haven’t heard anything new. Unbidden, a thought pops into my head: “Well, this isn’t [...]
Embodied Experiences, Mindfulness, and Technology
Screen time has leaked into every corner of our lives, and I frequently find myself engaged in conversations about it. One person is concerned about texting while walking. Another speaks worriedly about seeing whole families absorbed in their individual screens, alone together in silence. Yet another reflects on her diminishing capacity to go a significant [...]
Protecting Each Other’s Aloneness
I have been reading and re-reading this passage from Parker Palmer’s Let Your Life Speak. Such richness. Communal processes [can be]… supportive but not invasive. They help us probe questions and possibilities but forbid us from rendering judgment, allowing us to serve as midwives to a birth of consciousness that can only come from within. [...]
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Highlights
- Women in Tech and Empathy Work
- Inclusivity Is Not A Double Standard: Why Forbes is Wrong about Women in Tech
- Let It Suck.
- The Accidental Boss: Making Peace with Power
- Who am I to be Creative, Resourceful, and Whole?
- When Should You Start Following Your Big Dream?
- Moms Like Crosswords, and the NYT is ON IT.
- The Rebel Grandma: What my grandmother taught me about sex, love, and loneliness
- Fitter, Happier, More Productive: How Tech Can Help Us Be & Do Better
- What Men (and Everyone, Really) Can Do To Support Gender Equity in Tech
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