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Resilience Isn’t Who You Are, It’s What You Do
After living in San Francisco for many years, my friend and her husband decided to relocate to New York City. Jessica (not her real name) is an Asian American woman in her early 30s. She began her first shift as a nurse practitioner at the psychiatric ward of an NYC
How Tech Workers are Finding Their Footing in a Pandemic
This piece first appeared in Fast Company [https://www.fastcompany.com/90515519/tech-workers-are-showing-the-effects-of-covid-19-related-burnout] The start of 2020 should have been an energizing time for me, personally and professionally. I had just returned from a long-awaited holiday honeymoon and closed a new round of funding for my startup. But I found
Lessons on Persistence from Dean Karnazes
Photo by Alex Gorham [https://unsplash.com/@alexcgorham?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] on Unsplash [https://unsplash.com/search/photos/ultrarunner?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText] In college, I came across a book about long-distance running called Ultramarathon Man [https://www.amazon.
Professional Athletes Don't Train 70 Hours a Week and Neither Should You
Long hours are BS Lots of people in tech are obsessed with putting in long hours. Elon Musk once said [https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-nobody-changed-world-40-hours-a-week-not-true-2018-11] that “nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week” and suggested that the correct number was between 80-100 hours. Freelance marketplace Fiverr, with
How to Facilitate
Piper Anderson is no stranger to difficult conversations. As an educator and cultural organizer [http://www.create-forward.com/], she’s spent over 17 years facilitating discussions about some of the most hot-button issues facing U.S. society. In 2016, for example, she gave a TED talk about Mass Story Lab
