Jan 15
Resilience Isn’t Who You Are, It’s What You Do —
After living in San Francisco for many years, my friend and her husband decided
to relocate to New York City. Jessica (not her real name) is an Asian American
woman in her early 30s. She began her first shift as a nurse practitioner at the
psychiatric ward of an NYC
Jun 29
How Tech Workers are Finding Their Footing in a Pandemic —
This piece first appeared in Fast Company
[https://www.fastcompany.com/90515519/tech-workers-are-showing-the-effects-of-covid-19-related-burnout]
The start of 2020 should have been an energizing time for me, personally and
professionally. I had just returned from a long-awaited holiday honeymoon and
closed a new round of funding for my startup. But I found
Jul 01
Lessons on Persistence from Dean Karnazes —
Photo by Alex Gorham
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on Unsplash
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In college, I came across a book about long-distance running called
Ultramarathon
Jun 02
Professional Athletes Don't Train 70 Hours a Week and Neither Should You —
Long hours are BS
Lots of people in tech are obsessed with putting in long hours. Elon Musk once
said
[https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-nobody-changed-world-40-hours-a-week-not-true-2018-11]
that “nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week” and suggested that the
correct number was between 80-100 hours. Freelance marketplace Fiverr, with
Jun 06
How to Facilitate —
Piper Anderson is no stranger to difficult conversations. As an educator and
cultural organizer [http://www.create-forward.com/], she’s spent over 17 years
facilitating discussions about some of the most hot-button issues facing U.S.
society. In 2016, for example, she gave a TED talk about Mass Story Lab