Here’s another absurd article from Harvard Business Review about “the pillars of effective organizations.” The 10 they identify are: Encourage cooperation Organize for change. Anticipate the future. Remain flexible. Create distinctive spaces. Diversify and be inclusive. Promote personal growth. Empower people. Reward high performers. Foster a leadership culture. This is…

That above screenshot is from a New Yorker article on toxic masculinity, which is essentially a review of a couple of books about gender relations at present. …

These posts are always a bitch to write because they can become incredibly self-indulgent, so I’m trying to walk that tight rope whenever I sit down to do them. I wrote a post when I had been in Texas for one year, which would be about today in 2015. I…

This is a tough one to figure out and I doubt there’s much good research on it — and any research that did exist would probably be funneled through many half-truths — but I think we can try to play with some themes here. So, by way of introduction, for…

This morning, I got a newsletter from The Washington Post containing this article about America’s teaching shortages. Within said article, you have this passage: Why are America’s schools so short-staffed? Experts point to a confluence of factors including pandemic-induced teacher exhaustion, low pay and some educators’ sense that politicians and…

Here are the basic details but essentially, she was living with her husband (Wayne Pope) until December of 2012 in Stevensville, Maryland. They separated and she moved in with a friend on Kent Island. …

Maddie Yates, a high school student in Louisville, KY, posted a video to YouTube on a Monday in 2014 around 6pm. It was, essentially, a suicide note; she killed herself minutes later, apparently. In the “world of social media” (which makes me sound like I’m 57), teens started circulating the…

I’ve written before about the notion of compensated slavery, which is deeply tied to the “always on” culture that a lot of bosses demand these days. The screenshot above is from this report on digital presenteeism, which also has a corresponding documentary (!) about “the productivity paradox.” Essentially: we have…

This is an interesting topic and I do feel like it’s increasingly becoming a bigger slice of the societal pie in terms of bad things happening, but it’s also hard to write about because you don’t want to glorify any of these guys and their horrible actions. I will see…