Burnouts and Busts

Who here remembers having to take the President\’s Fitness test in school? You know, that bizarre, poorly explained week in gym class where you had to wait in long lines before seeing how far you could stretch, how high you could jump, and how fast you could run. As a kid I remembered dreading this […]

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Trust Me

Some of the best work I\’ve done in my current role, I\’ve done at the Blue Bottle coffee shop. They serve one of my favorite coffee brews, the service is always friendly, and there\’s always a general buzz of excitement from the other patrons who, like me, are furiously banging on their laptops or scribbling

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Missing the Millennial Mark

I was recently at a learning conference in San Francisco and, as has become the norm at these type of events, there was a speaker who was presenting on the topic of \”The Millennial Mindset.\” The speaker himself was in his mid to late-forties and he began with the usual tropes. \”Millennials are just different.\” \”Millennials

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