6 questions to ask yourself before making the switch to an independent career — Since I adopted a fully fractional way of work a few months ago, I’ve been getting a lot more inbound from friends, colleagues, and interested peers all wondering the same thing: “Should I go fractional, too?” Given the relatively new nature and nuance of the role (not to mention the…

Earlier this week, I read this Wall Street Journal article about how job seekers are officially fed up with cover letters. I don’t blame them. These overly structured, multi-paragraph essays take hours to refine and more often than not, simply disappear into the black box of applicant tracking systems and…

Chances are, you’re not looking in the right places to find the best people to run your customer or user community. — This week, I’ve received three different requests for candidate referrals for community manager jobs in my network. “Do you know anyone who might be a good fit?” they all want to know? “ Can you help spread the word?” Before I have the heart to tell these folks to “get…

Throughout the month of September, I ran a 30-day habit-building activity called the Back to Self Challenge. The truth is — I was keen to get back into a habit myself: Writing. And after 34 years, I know myself well enough to know that I’m more motivated to get a…

I burst through the doors of my home, into a world without Facebook, and I breathed my first real breath in over a decade. We have been freed. I looked up into the sky, yelled out in jubilation and dropped to my knees as the tears of joy started streaming…

I bought a piece of art this week from an art fair in New York City. I attended the fair on a complete whim after a last-minute from a friend earlier that day. …

In the “before times” (that’s to say, the pre-pandemic era), employees used to get access to “business lessons by exposure” all the time, whether we knew it or not. In the office, we’d overhear conversational snippets from that meeting down the hall where someone left their door open or spoke…

I bustled in the door at half past 8 last night, buzzing with energy. After unwinding over a glass of wine at the kitchen table, I filled in Jason from the day’s events as he idly tinkered with my Macbook Air that had unceremoniously died in the middle of the…

One of the most important things I learned from my five years in VC was the importance of being able to work on the go. That’s to say, to use the phone in your pocket and move the business, the project, or the conversation forward from wherever you are. In…