Nobody tells you, when you start a company, that the job is to become a stranger to yourself – not once, but five or six times over, on a schedule that has nothing to do with your readiness and everything to do with the organism you’ve built. The startup doesn’t care that you were good…
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I learned early that a face could be a weapon. Sixth of six children, I occupied the basement of the family hierarchy – everyone’s punching bag, no one beneath me to absorb the cascade. My siblings had refined the art of passing misery downward like a bucket brigade, and I stood at the end holding…
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You didn’t get laid off because you were bad at your job. This sentence circulates through professional networks with the force of revelation, and something in it rings true. The people who lose their positions in corporate reductions rarely match the profile we’d expect if merit drove the process. They include top performers, devoted employees,…
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Nobody is white. This seems like an odd place to start, but look at your arm under decent light. Unless you’ve recently died, you will not find white. You’ll find beige, maybe with olive undertones. Pink if you’ve been exercising. Cream, sand, wheat – the cosmetics industry abandoned ‘white’ as a descriptor generations ago because…
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