September 9, 2020
What’s the opposite of social distance? It’s not social closeness. It’s social spontaneity. Those serendipitous moments of inspiration and collaboration. Those happen most when humans are in close proximity to other humans.
August 12, 2020
We’re all walking around hungry and tired. And leave it to the people in charge of people to notice first.
July 1, 2020
What is the choice you can make that feeds your community? Of the available options, even if they’ll never hear about it either way, which is the one you’d be proud for your community to know about? Do that one.
June 17, 2020
As we start to look toward what happens next, we’re thinking a lot about the asterisk. And what it means that the people in charge think everything is fine.
June 3, 2020
Our Black readers don’t need us to tell them anything about how to fight the oppression they face. That’s not our lane. But we’re hearing from non-Black bosses that they don’t know what they should do.
May 20, 2020
There’s a lot of bosses trying to figure this one out right now. Their people aren’t where they can see them. So they ask the very silly, surface level, unexamined, first-time-working-with-remote-folks question. How do I know they’re working?
February 26, 2020
If the icebergs organize we’re all in trouble
February 12, 2020
And money that falls from the sky
January 29, 2020
Our hope for each of you is that it doesn’t take a plague to get you to rest, this year.
January 15, 2020
Sometimes things aren’t fine
December 18, 2019
Everyone is asking what we think about the Away thing.
December 4, 2019
And when to wash your hoodies
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