The adultiest “I need adulting help,” they said. “I am not very good at adulting.” I admitted back, but I tried to help anyway. Here’s the thing, though. We all have to be adults and… Read More »Edition Twenty Five: Grow up!

I’m on vacation this week, so in lieu of a regular newsletter, I give you a task. One of the best things someone ever did for me was after a hard week. They asked me… Read More »Edition Twenty Four: A task

I’ve mentioned job descriptions a couple of times before in this newsletter. I was writing one this week, (maybe the second of my career), and I thought out loud that a job description is the… Read More »Edition Twenty Three: A job description is an invitation

I really like…I’ve been thinking about compliments lately. They are some of the simplest things you can do to help improve someone’s feeling of self worth a work, but there’s inherent issues. What if someone… Read More »Edition 32: The first one via Mailchimp

If you’ve talked to me in recent weeks, I will quote something from “The Hard Thing about Hard Things” by Ben Horowitz. It’s a book for start-up CEOs, but I’m finding so much of this… Read More »Edition Twenty Two: Laying in the open, unearthed.

Sorry, nevermind. Once, I was having a particularly difficult edit with someone. In my exasperation I said, “It doesn’t matter to me, I don’t care, but this is your story and I’m just trying to… Read More »Edition Twenty One: Ugh, I messed up.

My other half is brilliant. He is kind. He pushes me to ask for more money, knows I can take the responsibility. He tells me to stop working. He makes me sandwiches in the middle… Read More »Edition Twenty: Sorry, it’s my turn to drive.

“I’m sorry, but I think this is best for both of us.” There’s lots of reasons people quit. They could hate their job. They could hate you. They could just be ready for something new.… Read More »Edition Nineteen: I have some bad news for you.

Perhaps it is on my mind because I am going on a short, but needed vacation next week, but let’s talk about time off. We can all complain about not getting time off or not… Read More »Edition Eighteen: [Out of office]…

This is another week of travel for me, so I had less time to write, but I really wanted to share a poem I came across that reminds me gratitude can be found (and shown) everywhere.… Read More »Edition Seventeen: Hey, thanks.