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
When the AI Notetaker Joins Your Meeting
I joined a meeting the other day and, for a moment, it was just me and the notetaker. Not for the whole thirty minutes – five other people eventually arrived, each with an apology about a call that ran long
Time to Talk about “The Rizz”
I have, in the last week or so, participated in two separate conversations in which the phrase “the rizz” was deployed, unironically, by adults. Adults who are, every one of them, well past the age of forty. Adults with mortgages,
Go Along to Get Along
Go along to get along. It travels easily, this expression. It presents itself as wisdom rather than warning: a pragmatic acknowledgment that harmony requires some measure of personal concession, that belonging has a cost, and that the prudent professional learns
