Self-coaching: Climbing your hill
What is your favorite task at work? What fears have you lying awake at night? Who do you know that is doing important work?
Read More »Category:happiness
Three excellent election links
Chapati Mystery quotes Urdu poetry and aspires to more than survival. Not so much about the election as about who we become now. Samir Chopra on how the American disdain for unions has been our downfall. Ethan Zuckerman on insurrectionism […]
Read More »
Confronting Fear
Fear is really tricky to parse. Sometimes it’s a true signal that you’re doing something dangerous. That deserves consideration. The fear, though, can’t tell just how dangerous that thing may be. It will ping for climbing a tree or for […]
Read More »
Finding your grip
I went on a jet-ski ride last summer with two of my oldest friends. A jet-ski, for the uninitiated, is one a two or three-person watercraft, pretty much the boat equivalent of a motorcycle. It turns out that maybe putting […]
Read More »
Resources for change: Air travel
These aren’t so much resources for change as resources for better travel, but travel’s a big part of this career, right? If you are flying to an EU country on an EU carrier, or out of the EU on any […]
Read More »
Influenza, wind, & politics: Three predictions for the future
We’re going to make it okay out of the fossil fuel transition; solar and wind technology is improving fast enough that we’re not going to face any kind of peak oil disaster. However, the environmental toll of getting the last […]
Read More »
Stories and Truth
Two readings on narratives and what they mean to us: A sociologist in Louisiana talks about Trump and the American Dream. “We all have a deep story. And it’s important to know what these are. Because so many arguments aren’t really […]
Read More »
Self-Coaching: Endings
We face a lot of endings in this line of work. Projects end, postings end. Jobs end, and sometimes careers. We change countries and friendships end. Some of us are instinctively good at endings; others, not so much. If […]
Read More »
the bravery of one more step
An occupational hazard of being this kind of coaching is thinking about bravery all the damn time. How can I be brave in my own life? What does brave actually mean. There are a thousand nuances to this word; that’s […]
Read More »
Five ways to get the most out of an internship
I’ve had a lot of internships. Well, five, to be exact. Three were okay, one was a failure, and one succeeded beyond my wildest hopes. I have also supervised my share of eager young interns. Someday, in another post, I’ll […]
Read More »
