The older I get, the more I think that one of the most important skills of adulthood is just pretending to give a shit about stuff you could care less about in order to make the person presenting the care-less info to you feel better. I literally do this 10–12…

Saw this above graphic in a newsletter this morning. Looks like another hand-wringing “thought leadership” graphic about why people are quitting jobs, which is supposedly going to teach bosses that they need to appreciate and respect the people that work for them. Most managers are utterly incapable of doing this…

Look, to a certain extent we all love to be busy — it gives us a feeling equivalent to being high. I get it. But you’ve all probably worked with one (or more!) guy or girl who is constantly using how busy they are as an excuse to do absolutely…

I can keep this one pretty short, I think. It’s not a complete stretch of a discussion. Issue 1: We “let” women run our families, right? Families are the absolute bedrock of societies, because families lead to communities, and communities are everything. So women can do that — often are…

Never been a big fan of management development or leadership development or whatever you want to call it. It’s Turd City at a lot of places. I’ve made an argument before — via people smarter than me — that the whole A-Player discussion is morally bankrupt, and there’s a new…

The older I get, the more I think that one of the most important skills of adulthood is just pretending to give a shit about stuff you could care less about in order to make the person presenting the care-less info to you feel better. I literally do this 10–12…

That pull quote pic above is from this article, which is surprisingly nuanced — for Harvard Business Review, at least — about decisions that need to be made right now. I’ve never understood why people cannot grasp this logic. Just like a piece of software, an office is a tool…

I think we sometimes have this narrative that the fertility issue is typically on the woman, like “advanced age” or PCOS or whatever. I do not know fertility stats writ large off the top of my head, but I know that in my specific case, it was on me. My…

This graphic is from MIT. If you go back through the COVID pandemic and into “The Great Resignation” — a deeply flawed narrative, but a narrative nonetheless — you will see 18,000 charts like this, all purporting that “toxic cultures” are creating the churn in employees, even relative to compensation…