coaching for clarity and courage
I have said this before and I am sure I’ll say it again. The law of attraction is nonsense. I say this because I’ve seen too many bad things to believe otherwise. Really amazing, optimistic positive people get screwed over […]
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Before I came to Kyrgyzstan, I spent three months in Central New York, within a hundred miles of where I was born. It was the longest time I’d spent there since 1993 when I headed off to college, and I […]
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My job is terrible. My organization is unethical enough that I feel bad working there, but not so much I can gather evidence and expose them. All my colleagues are undermining back-biters and they take three hour lunches. My boss’s […]
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If you’ve ever wanted to see me screw up on stage, you’re in luck! A talk I gave on international development is now up in the TED YouTube archive. It was five years ago, but I remember being very pleased […]
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So, I’m at TED. Well, almost. I’m at the pre-conference for TED fellows. The big events start on Monday. Being in the presence of the TED fellows every year is an exercise in humility. I mean, I love what I […]
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Things will be light around here for the next month. I am off to TED (TED), the Hero Round Table (state of the art information on being brave) in San Francisco, and SwitchPoint in North Carolina (the coolest international development […]
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The first reason: I am sending out my next set of postcards for my postcard project this week. If you’d like to receive one, email me – alanna@needsbrave.com – with your address and I’ll put you on the list. The […]
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Well, one other place. I’ve got an article in The Telegraph on infectious diseases today.
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In six not so easy steps: Accept that it’s not going to be pleasant. Lots of things are difficult and unpleasant. Influenza. Traffic court. Surgery. Unlike influenza, a difficult conversation is never fatal. You are strong enough to survive 20-30 […]
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A recent piece I wrote for UN Dispatch, on where our next pandemic may come from. (Spoiler: animals!) Exactly ten years ago, here’s what we were thinking about emerging infectious diseases. What is striking about this article is that it […]
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If you’re like most of the people I know, you’re desperately worried and afraid. And you feel helpless. What the hell does any individual person do about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? I’ll start with what not to do. Stay off […]
I refuse to live in fear forever is the kind of thing you say when your life has been so comfortable you’ve never had to look at the world straight on In my own community I keep hearing people say, […]
A lot of American systems were one big shock away from disaster and this is that disaster 1. A lot of American systems were one big shock away from disaster and this is that disaster. Healthcare, but also public education, […]