23 2024 August
The Power in Belonging
On November 18th, 1978, in a remote compound in the jungles of Guyana, over 900 men, women, and children died after drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid under...
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The Unexpected Path
I first met Abby on a campus bus when we were teens. She was a freshman at Harvard, and I was there visiting my then-boyfriend...
Read More08 2024 August
The Hidden Message You’re Communicating
Photo by Andre Hunter on Unsplash During the 1992 election, a voter asked sitting president George H.W. Bush about how the national debt impacted him...
Read More02 2024 August
Unlearning the Lessons That No Longer Serve Us
I was sitting at the dinner table cutting restaurant napkins in half, and my husband came by to ask me what I was doing. When...
Read More25 2024 July
How to Open Communication
I took a couple weeks off from writing—one to go on vacation with my family, and then another to recuperate from the Covid everyone got...
Read More05 2024 July
Removing Asymmetry of Information
Photo by Caleb George on Unsplash I started my time at Ancestry with a listening tour and state of the union, where I spoke to...
Read More21 2024 June
Less Is More
There are days when I just want to throw my hands up and declare “house bankruptcy.” The act of clearing out my in-laws’ house and...
Read More14 2024 June
The Filter You Use Changes How You See Things
Canon sponsored an experiment where six photographers captured the photo of the same man in the same location. Each of them were told a different...
Read More07 2024 June
Cognitive Biases You Don’t Think About
We have a running joke at work. Whenever we have an off-site or all-day meeting, we always quip, “Don’t take the ‘no parole’ slot.” Confused?...
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