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,
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,
