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economy she s also a respected business strategist and educator who prioritizes fundamentals over flashy tactics nuanced analysis over easy answers and sustainability over profit for profit s sake bringing a rigorous critique of conventional wisdom to topics like success and productivity she melds conceptual curiosity with practical application her work has been featured in fast company quartz and the muse featured essays episodes temporal bandwidth how do you think about the future in a world that seems to reward short term thinking reach back into history reacquaint yourself with the past and expand your sense of now whether in work business or leadership a more capacious temporal bandwidth offers us a more stable footing read more read more featured apr 30 2026 apples oranges and iceberg metrics apr 30 2026 three rules of thumb for thinking about data and how you use it apr 30 2026 apr 9 2026 walking out apr 9 2026 some thoughts on the space between personal challenges and systemic failings apr 9 2026 mar 20 2026 the wages of hierarchy mar 20 2026 what do elite kitchens have to do with your work environment quite a bit mar 20 2026 mar 12 2026 technicians visionaries and the myth of going solo mar 12 2026 who is a business owner is a more complicated question than it seems mar 12 2026 mar 5 2026 this process is a mess mar 5 2026 making sense is a messy process but it s worth it mar 5 2026 culture media featured jan 15 2026 making intelligence masculine again jan 15 2026 what the push for ai everything has to do with the great feminization panic and how both propose to reshape the workplace jan 15 2026 nov 20 2025 diving into the deep end nov 20 2025 how do you get others to care about what you care about you have to care about what they care about nov 20 2025 aug 14 2025 our yearning for competence aug 14 2025 if competence porn is media that titillates by showing highly skilled people doing their thing then what could an erotics of competence look like aug 14 2025 jun 26 2025 the pleasure promise of rereading jun 26 2025 taking time to reread rewatch or relisten can be taking time to rediscover yourself jun 26 2025 may 29 2025 support my work scripts stories and narrative systems may 29 2025 what really happens when we ask for or give support to the creators we love may 29 2025 may 8 2025 what is a search engine may 8 2025 what happens when we confuse a chatbot for a search engine and why does it matter may 8 2025 systems society featured apr 9 2026 walking out apr 9 2026 some thoughts on the space between personal challenges and systemic failings apr 9 2026 mar 20 2026 the wages of hierarchy mar 20 2026 what do elite kitchens have to do with your work environment quite a bit mar 20 2026 oct 2 2025 rethinking busyness oct 2 2025 how hbo s the pitt can help us rethink busyness and find ways to navigate it with care and grace oct 2 2025 aug 7 2025 3 ways i make sense of the unexpected perplexing aug 7 2025 how i use the man behind the curtain framework the process of normalization and the theory of value capture to make sense of chaos aug 7 2025 jul 31 2025 make it make sense jul 31 2025 chaos what it is why it occurs and how we can approach it with curiosity jul 31 2025 apr 3 2025 how to leverage enabling structures to fulfill values apr 3 2025 to solve intractable challenges big and small we need systems and structures that catalyze our imaginations and urge us to realize higher values apr 3 2025 business entrepreneurship featured mar 12 2026 technicians visionaries and the myth of going solo mar 12 2026 who is a business owner is a more complicated question than it seems mar 12 2026 jan 8 2026 what else must be true jan 8 2026 doing some decision making need to choose between a few good options well a little logic puzzle might help jan 8 2026 jul 30 2024 to bundle or not to bundle that is the question jul 30 2024 jul 30 2024 jul 16 2024 toward a local approach to building a business jul 16 2024 jul 16 2024 jul 9 2024 do people know what it is jul 9 2024 jul 9 2024 jul 2 2024 you get what you pay for or do you jul 2 2024 jul 2 2024 future of work featured mar 12 2026 technicians visionaries and the myth of going solo mar 12 2026 who is a business owner is a more complicated question than it seems mar 12 2026 feb 19 2026 how i learn a new skill feb 19 2026 the tale of how i began learning final cut pro feb 19 2026 feb 5 2026 rethinking higher education for the 21st century economy feb 5 2026 work and education overlap in all sorts of ways from the economic to the political to the cultural and social lauren lassabe shepherd a historian of education and the host of the american campus podcast shares how higher ed has evolved and what that means for the future of work feb 5 2026 jan 22 2026 circling back jan 22 2026 what happens when we remember to circle back jan 22 2026 jul 24 2025 what if you re not off track and never have been jul 24 2025 thoughts on college prep midlife and as of yet uninvented 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