THE OCCASIONAL MENTOR is a semi-regular column based on questions I’ve answered on Quora, heard on Slack groups, and other career advice I’ve given over the prior month. Feel free to challenge me in the comments, if you have a different experience. Kill Your Darlings I am working on a project with a…

THE OCCASIONAL MENTOR: A semi-regular column based on questions I’ve answered on Quora, heard on Slack groups, and other career advice I’ve given over the prior month. Feel free to challenge me in the comments, if you have a different experience. Below are questions I answered in November. Why do…

My friend Austin Govella wrote today on using a kind of whole-body dot voting to teach teams to “Vote With Your Feet”. We are in a Liminal Thinking group on Facebook where he initially threw his ideas around. …

Today I had a dentist appointment. There weren’t any open appointments until October, but they had a cancelation, so I took it. I had just been there two days ago with my grown children, each reporting wisdom tooth pain, lost fillings and sensitivity. My tooth pain was attributed to “Coronivirus…

One of my startup groups suggested doing a check-in last week and one of the things I noticed in everyone’s worries was speculation about how markets might behave in comparison to earlier periods of economic turmoil. I’ve been through 1987, 9/11 and 2008, so weighed in with my perspective. The…

August 26, 2019 NOLA Ready Alert instructing residents regarding parking restriction lift during flood warning. My son, Jay, is a sophomore at Loyola University in New Orleans, so the worrywart parent I am signed up for NOLA Ready alerts to track emergencies during hurricane season. The above flash flood alert…

Article updated on the event’s 50th Anniversary with images from Woodstock then and in 2011 when this piece was first published. August 30, 2011 This past weekend, while Irene was threatening the East Coast, my husband and I were in the Catskills for visiting day at our daughters’ summer camp. We decided to…