01 2025 May
At the Edge of What’s Next: Navigating Life’s Big Transitions
Photo by Válter Venâncio on Unsplash There’s a moment when you step off the path you’ve been traveling and stare into the yawning abyss of...
Read More24 2025 April
How I’m Improving My Health (and How Your Can Improve Yours)
Photo by Emma Simpson on Unsplash Growing up, I never thought much about my health. I was sick often (now I know it was due...
Read More08 2025 April
Success, Rewritten: My Life Behind the Spotlight
Hi everyone, I’m Caroline—Deb’s sister—and I’m filling in for her today with a slightly different post. Usually, I’m more of a behind-the-scenes presence, quietly cheering...
Read More03 2025 April
Future-Ready: Thriving in the Age of AI
Note: This article is written with insights I learned from Li Fan, Chief AI Officer of Circle and formerly of Google, Baidu, and Pinterest. I...
Read More27 2025 March
The Magic of Marketplaces
Photo by Clement Souchet on Unsplash Marketplaces have existed since 3000 BC. The early Sumerian cities of Ur and Uruk in modern-day Iraq had places...
Read More20 2025 March
What We Learn from Sickness
The past couple of months have been a blur. After stepping down following four years at Ancestry, I went straight into surgery for early-stage breast...
Read More13 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...
Read More06 2025 March
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...
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