How did they not know?
July 23, 2025
We’re still in the early days, this is still mostly anecdotes, but the anecdotes are multiplying fast. And they’re haunting.
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Take a chance on me
June 11, 2025
The opportunities that anyone could take, but no one is taking.
20k of headache
April 30, 2025
If one more exec pastes one more link about workplace dips in productivity, the managers are going lose it.
Nothing about this is temporary
February 5, 2025
The thing you can’t do, even when the entire world is upside down, is freeze.
True power lies elsewhere
November 13, 2024
A lot of stuff lives in the “about work and not about work at the same time” bucket. Turns out that organizing humans around complex tasks is messy.
Whose job is it?
February 7, 2024
Folks are quick to say, “I’m not actively looking. I’m happy where I am. I feel lucky to have a job. But…”
I’ll call you from the car
November 29, 2023
The important decisions you’ll make as a boss — or a human — need to be made in the midst of very loud and poorly-timed chaos.
Day-to-day management in a polycrisis
October 18, 2023
Yours can be a team where people’s humanity has space to coexist with, and even outrank, their productivity. It’s worth building that. We’re all going to need it.
You can’t stand under my umbrella
February 22, 2023
Staring down a difficult reality and finding your way to acceptance is hard enough. But having a manager conceal that reality from you makes acceptance impossible.
You don’t want to drink that
August 10, 2022
Threats. Dismissiveness. Burnout. Micromanagement. Yelling. Every bad boss behaviour is going to come out of the woodwork in the next few months.
Hello from the basement
July 27, 2022
One of us has COVID and so far, thanks in large part to the basement (and boosters! and masking! and updated rapid test procedures!), no one else in the house does.
The Clapback
May 18, 2022
Anywhere your senior leaders are not giving their full-throated support to a thing, you should be prepared for a clapback.
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