Nobody knows who made the rule. There’s no founding document showing us there was an etiquette board that convened in 1903 and took a vote. No one has found evidence of a memo that was circulated among the summer houses
Back in My Day
I vividly recall the precise orange of aerosol cheese sprayed straight from a can. I remember the crinkle-then-release of a Ding Dong freed from its foil, the pizza bagels that lived in the freezer and tasted like a sleepover, and
Shifting Work: How Micro is Micro?
I have a working theory about workplace trends: assign any behavior that has persisted for decades a hyphenated descriptor, and within a year HR will be issuing formal guidance on it. Let’s examine micro-shifting and the sudden authority with which
What We Leave Behind
It takes a surprisingly small container to hold what a person accumulates over nineteen years at a job. A single copy paper box will generally do it, and into that box goes the mug from a 2009 charity golf scramble,
