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Signs and Portents and Garbage

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Sometimes I believe the work of human life is coming to understand what we already know. We’re evolved for process and analysis and learning, but our ability to do that gets drowned out in the noise of modern life. The push […]

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Making a Difference

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International development is mostly about the long-term change. We rarely see the results of our work soon, or first-hand. Sometimes finding your brave is finding a way to make a difference you can see, just to remind you that change does […]

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Self-coaching questions: Fulfillment

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Pick one of these questions to reflect on: What does fulfillment mean to you? What would fulfillment in your life look life? Have you ever experienced fulfillment in the past?    

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Reader Q: Where should I go to grad school?

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I have worked for three years in women’s rights advocacy, and I’ve always wanted to do aid work. Of particular interest to me is disaster relief – refugee situations, climate disaster. Women tend to be the most affected in these […]

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Terrible Career Advice and Other Links

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Lifehacker suggests asking for a reference letter when you leave a job. Because they think it’s 1973? No one uses reference letters anyone more. Having them won’t get you a job; it will make you look ridiculous. Career advice that […]

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Prince and the back roads of the Adirondacks

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Prince, making some old white dudes look like amateurs I was a very good kid at seventeen. Very, very good. I loved my parents unabashedly. I didn’t drink. I didn’t smoke, not even cigarettes. I didn’t even stay out late. I […]

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Maybe I’m Not the Coach for You

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Shannon Maybe all my talk about brave gets on your nerves because the grammar isn’t right. Maybe you don’t agree with my feeling that we’re working in a broken system. Maybe you want someone who has mostly coaching experience, not […]

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Five job interview tips

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Presence matters. Speak clearly and with confidence. I go into this interview on your side. I want every candidate to be awesome. I want to buy what you’re selling. Sometimes, we don’t find what we want, even several interviews. If we […]

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What do we do about Ukraine?

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 […]

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On living in fear of COVID

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, […]

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Things I’ve been thinking lately about COVID

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, […]

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