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13 2025 March
Create Your Own Table
My friends Al Ko and Ann Munira-Ko have a tradition of opening their home and dinner table to people in their community, no matter how...
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Reading, Reading, and More Reading
Note: I took the week off last week to recuperate from surgery. The procedure went smoothly, but I had to force myself to not do...
Read More20 2025 February
The Gift of Gratitude
A mole (Avogadro constant)) for Mrs Ashburn my niece made When I was six, my parents moved us from Queens, New York to a small...
Read More13 2025 February
Breaking Free from Perfectionism
I am a recovering perfectionist. There, I said it. I was the one who nitpicked font colors in PowerPoint and meticulously removed double spaces in...
Read More06 2025 February
Drawing the Cancer Card
It started with a birthday gift request, and that was what changed everything. My friend Mauria was turning 50, and when I asked her what...
Read More30 2025 January
Adding Not Subtracting: What Leaving 90% of Our Things Behind Taught Me About Life
Last week I found myself staring at a box labeled “BCG Stuff” and thought to myself that I lost the plot. I have not worked...
Read More23 2025 January
Beyond What’s Next
Photo by Daniel Salcius on Unsplash Last year I wrote the article, The Danger of What’s Next. We spend a lot of our lives anticipating...
Read More15 2025 January
Looking Back and Looking Ahead
I remember my first day at Ancestry. It was March 2021. The world was grappling with COVID, and so everything work-related was still virtual. There...
Read More09 2025 January
Getting Out of Your Own Way
Over the years of leading teams, I’ve encountered a recurring pattern that has both fascinated and humbled me. It started with one of my product...
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