People are on your side
Well, real life people are, anyway. I was helping a friend do job interviews for her NGO last week, and we wanted every candidate to me amazing. We wanted them to come in and blow us away with their competence […]
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What you can lose
Boniface Mwangi is a Kenyan activist. He’s also a TED fellow, which means I’ve spent a decent amount of time with him. We were in Brazil for TED Global a couple of years ago, and he told me something I’ve […]
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Prince and the back roads of the Adirondacks
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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Things I wish I didn’t know
Seven or eight years ago now, I was living with my parents (and husband, and son) in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. I’d been an expat long enough that I could open a can of beans with a paring knife, but my mom […]
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Loose ties are the secret to networking
Networking isn’t about the people you know well. There just aren’t enough people you know well. It’s about the people you kind of know. The colleague from another department three jobs ago. The intern you supervised in summer 2004. A […]
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Me and my racist friend
aka: just one of the many times I’ve been an asshole A few years back, I moved to another country. This is something I do every few years, because that’s how international development work goes. I’m good at the moves, […]
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Your job is more than your employment
I read a blog post today about not being brave. Bruce DeSilva, blogging for the Washington Post, wrote about the time he learned of a priest abusing a child – and ignored it. He had acceptable reasons for ignoring it. His […]
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Be Jonathan Coulton
Don’t be the monkey. This Jonathan Coulson song sums up a lot of our lives, just lumping along waiting for something magical to make it better. In this case, it’s a woman he’s objectifying into a magical savior object. For […]
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Moving
What happens next? The questions over the last four days were meant to start you thinking about the shape and texture of your life. By now, I hope, your head is swirling a little. Something may have been sparked. That […]
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Working
How does your work change the world? All work – at home, in a workplace, at school – has an impact, and every impact matters. Large or small. What is your impact?
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