I’ve been thinking about passion. Not the Instagram version of passion. Not “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life!” because honestly, whoever invented that sentence has never had a mortgage. I mean actual passion. That strange, consuming feeling when something or someone […]
I was thinking today about how strange it is that we spend approximately 90% of our lives looking for things we personally put somewhere. Keys. Glasses. Phone. The phone we are currently holding while looking for the phone. And then there are the things we lose emotionally. Our […]
I’ve been watching Nashville again. I started because of Hayden’s death and that deserves its own post, but while watching, I discovered something else. Yhe power of asking everyone to leave the room. It happens constantly on this show. Usually someone important or at least someone who has […]
Apparently, there is a new definition of creative control. Pay for the entire television series, cast yourself as the leading lady, personally select your leading man and then insist on more than 60 kissing scenes. Yes. Sixty. A recent Chinese short-drama production reportedly became so kiss-heavy that the […]
I recently learned about Rick Charls, who in 1983 was one of five divers to successfully dive from a completely reasonable 172-foot platform at SeaWorld San Diego. You know, just casually throwing yourself off a building into a pool. His dive was particularly impressive for its difficulty and […]
I came across a quote recently that challenged the old cliché: “Winners never quit.” Apparently, winners do quit. They quit doing stupid things. I like that much better. Because let’s be honest. I have yet to meet a person who has never not done anything stupid. Winners included. […]
What’s a thing you wish schools actually taught? I sometimes wish schools taught common sense the way they teach calculus. Not just facts, but strategy for living. The kind you usually learn the hard way, mid-conversation, mid-conflict, mid “I should have handled that differently.” One of the best […]
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever received is deceptively simple. Not everything is urgent. It sounds obvious, almost dismissible, until you realize how much of life is designed to feel urgent. Emails marked “ASAP.” Texts that […]
Sometimes, I think we’re going about hiring all wrong. Forget reference checks. Forget panel interviews. Forget those painfully curated resumes where everyone is “results-driven” and “passionate about synergy” (whatever that means this week). What we really need is a nice, quiet restaurant. Recently, I found myself at a […]
There’s a Dostoevsky-adjacent line that has followed me from job to job, like a slightly unhinged little companion: “they insulted me in seventy lines and only the spelling mistakes bothered me.” It shouldn’t resonate as much as it does. And yet. Because here’s the thing about being a […]
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