How to reframe the stories that hold you back at work | Continue reading
Buy Nothing communities, neighborhood lending libraries, economic boycotts, and being intentional with where our money goes | Continue reading
A story of two friends, three startups, and one just-launched newsletter on running early-stage companies! | Continue reading
A fun thought experiment around finances, time, and what you are or aren't willing to sacrifice for financial independence. | Continue reading
Everything I’m learning about uselessness, thriving, and not needing to scale from our backyard ginkgo tree. | Continue reading
Reflections on things I’m learning and continue to learn this year. | Continue reading
Just in time to settle into the end of the year with a cozy holiday season | Continue reading
Processing this past week and some joyful things in my life | Continue reading
A reader writes in with a challenging situation on a new team and an architect who is having trouble getting out of the weeds. | Continue reading
In this post-post-partum period, I'm starting to feel like myself again. But what does that even mean? | Continue reading
A few things that have brought me joy lately during this time of transition | Continue reading
Breastfeeding realities, new baby life, mental load, and zero sum games. | Continue reading
How it was with different companies, roles, and experiences | Continue reading
Wisdom from a 6 year-old, and top regrets of the dying | Continue reading
We can spend a lifetime working on the same things, and that's ok | Continue reading
Thoughts on planning and letting go of expectations | Continue reading
Navigating the space between should and want, and finding more permission for ease and rest. | Continue reading
A reader writes in with questions about technical up-skilling, finding balance in life and work, and getting in touch with their identity outside of work. | Continue reading
How to suss out what motivates a candidate, their potential beyond their current skillset, initiative-taking, behavioral challenges, and more. | Continue reading
Recent experience interviewing candidates, reflections on the job market, and the shift in how people are seeing work fitting into their lives | Continue reading
Reflections on a hard year, and looking to the year ahead | Continue reading
and trying to find our way anyways in this season of life | Continue reading
Finding space and time to sloooooow down | Continue reading
A behind-the-scenes look at my initial reaction 😬, all the stats, cross-posting to Medium, and lessons learned | Continue reading
This was almost a post on why millennial motherhood is so challenging, but turned into tactical food hacks. | Continue reading
How we can reduce ask vs guess culture clashes by creating more shared context, aligning around when to ask for help, and helping guess culture coworkers get clarity on what they want in their careers | Continue reading
When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!" Exploring the clashes of ask culture and guess culture, at home and at work. | Continue reading
Have you ever hoped that someone would notice your good work and give you more opportunities? Would that have been even more meaningful than if you asked for what you wanted, and got it? | Continue reading
Making space and time for nurturing the inner artist in all of us | Continue reading
A tech "late-adopter" plays around with chat-gpt and other chatbots and is blown away by some use cases and underwhelmed by others. | Continue reading
Watching the pendulum swing away from people-centric leadership and wishing pendulums didn't swing quite so far in the other direction. | Continue reading
why it's important to make space for not-the-highest-priority things at your job | Continue reading
Unexpected creative outlets beyond writing | Continue reading
“When hustle culture is glorified, it incentivizes people to work longer hours, not because it’s a good way to get the work done, but because they want to be perceived as working long hours.” #Business [Link] | Continue reading
Anyone who spends any time with me knows that I love food — thinking about food, making food, eating food, telling people about food. Why not add it into Tech and Tea? | Continue reading
Hierarchy of needs in action, sooner than I expected | Continue reading
Insights from carving out space for creativity | Continue reading
How letting go of being productive with my time made space for creativity | Continue reading
proudly announcing Tech and Tea | Continue reading
feelings we resist and judge ourselves for | Continue reading
a question that seems to be on lots of people's minds | Continue reading
Comparison from a place of enough-ness | Continue reading
a double-edged sword | Continue reading
A reminder that you're doing just fine | Continue reading
Some things that surprised me when I let myself be tired | Continue reading
My fantasy for work-life integration today | Continue reading