“Work is a family!” = often a lie (or … is it?)
Work is more like, ahem, a neighborhood. Continue Reading
Family
The Blunder Years, Episode 5: The Encouragement Engineer and the “reality of life kicking in”
Work-life balance, losing parents and losing kids, not being able to give 110 percent at work anymore, and the “value chasm” of individuals. Continue Reading
The familial vs. broader society disconnect
How we make decisions with our families and how we want to be seen when posting online are often very, very different. Continue Reading
Now begins the time of year where family > work
Ah, Monday. But this is a specific Monday! It’s the Monday of Thanksgiving week! (At least in the United States.) So you probably work today, maybe tomorrow, no more than half of Wednesday, and then you’re likely off for the… Continue Reading
No, Mother’s Day doesn’t mean your mom is perfect
The No. 1 brand in the entire world isn’t Apple, or Exxon, or Google, or anything like that … it’s motherhood. That’s the most tied up in “should-be good” feelings, the future of our world, and everything that we’re taught is… Continue Reading
Bullshit Studies 101: “Parenting Time Doesn’t Matter.”
I quote studies and research on here all the time, because, well, frankly I’m personally not that intelligent — so I figure if anyone is going to assign any veracity to anything I say, I should probably back it up… Continue Reading
The biggest themes of the most-shared Internet content are…
If you read David Plotz’s goodbye letter from Slate a while back, you might assume that all that matters on the Internet is memes and funny (or animal) pictures. (Hell, if you’ve ever been on the Internet for 45 or… Continue Reading
Patrick Pichette (Google CFO) story: Yep, it’s awesome. But uh, he’s rich.
This Patrick Pichette story (he was the CFO of Google) is going a little bit viral today. Here’s the basic rundown. He retired from a plum job way before you’d think an average American male in such a job would retire,… Continue Reading