It’s almost 2026 but rather than another prediction post or retrospective listicle, I decided to offer a reckoning and call out two HR fictions we need to eliminate in 2026. Are these “lies we tell ourselves” malicious? Not really. But
Thursday is the New Friday: Inside the 4-Day Work Week We Won’t Admit Exists
Thursday at about 3 PM is when it starts. You can feel the collective exhale ripple through the office like a wave as email responses slow to a crawl and Teams chats (other than the “meme chat”) go quiet. The
Meaning-making in the Face of Velocity
If you’ve ever experienced a traumatic event that was a “close call” – i.e. a horrific traffic accident or a medical emergency – it’s quite likely that afterwards you went through several steps. First there was a sense-making process where
Vibe HR: When Borrowed Policies and Gut Decisions Replace Real Strategy
There’s a term (and practice) that’s been floating around the tech/software development world this year that has given me pause: vibe coding. Coined by computer scientist Andrej Karpathy in February 2025, it describes a workflow where developers stop writing code
