Did you ever get a mouthful of sand? Swimming in the ocean, face-planting on the beach, or sliding into home plate during a neighborhood baseball game as a kid? One second you’re fine; the next you’re crunching grit between your
Free Speech at Work: Understanding the First Amendment
“Free speech” gets invoked everywhere – from campus quads to corporate Slack channels. In U.S. law, though, it has a precise meaning: the First Amendment restrains government actors from abridging expression. That protection is foundational and robust. It is also
Workplace Weather: Spotting Culture Shifts
You can feel a culture change at work before you can chart it. The air gets heavy. The jokes at the all-hands meeting don’t quite land, decisions stretch like taffy at the State Fair, and the most polite people in
Things I Miss about Going to the Office
I miss the cakes. Chocolate sheet cake with buttercream frosting for someone’s birthday. King Cake during Carnival season. Caramel Doberge with too many layers to count and just enough sugar to spark a workplace-wide coma by 2 p.m. There was
