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Do Less.
On my left ribs, I have a too-big tattoo of text from my favorite book, Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut: “busy, busy, busy.” In the book, the quote continues: “... is what … we whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable th...
The lies I used to tell myself
1. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
When I was 31, my husband of four years, who I loved more than my own life, left me completely out of the blue. We’d had an incredible, epic romance — drawn together like magnets, we marri...
The seam through the center of things
The Lord will take control of you. You will dance and shout and become a different person. 1 Samuel 10:6
In the weeks after Sasha and I sent the final manuscript for our book to the publisher, I found myself crying a lot. In some cases,...
Burnout is breaking a sacred pact
I am a connoisseur of burnout. In my four decades on this earth, I’ve tasted many of its varieties — some subtle, some gross. There are Emmett Shear’s core three — permanent on-call, broken steering, and mission doubt — but many others too:...
Rightness is a prison
Illustration by Alexander Naughton
I recently did a “50 things I know” post, and asked which ones people wanted to hear more about. This was number 22 on that list.
We just wrapped up our first quarterly reviews for Astera’s spring...
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