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I'm So Over This (or, the Trouble With Platforms)
I've spent the last year (and then some) wrestling with my relationship to platforms.
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Seeing Software
Why we need to be choosers rather than users
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Banking on Crisis
Chaos creates opportunities—and even accidental celebrities. But I wouldn't bank on it.
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Work In Progress
Positive change—in work, business, or politics—requires regular tending and care. Here are 3 ideas to buoy that effort.
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Good Work and Good Pay
The more socially and culturally beneficial our work is, the less we're supposed to get for it.
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Boundary-breaking Resourcefulness
The way we frame a problem determines how we understand what resources are required and how we might procure them.
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Cult Value
If a chatbot writes your novel, did you really complete NaNoWriMo? And other questions about what we might lose when we delegate or automate meaningful…
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The Business Casual Economy
We need creative economic and labor policy that recognizes the growing number of people who straddle the gaping divide between formal employment …
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The Life (and Work) of Luxury
A brief reflection on a summer of college visits
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Making Sense of a Flop Era
Stuck in a cycle of near misses and unwanted outcomes? Here's why—and some ideas for what to do about it.
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What We Get Wrong About The Middle Ground
Finding compromise requires recognizing the full context of a negotiation.
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Before Saying 'Yes' to Another Project...
Two questions I use to manage my tendency to overcommit
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