On Transience

Out­side my office win­dow the wind comes up in a tree that yes­ter­day had been a sin­gle big red bon­fire. Now, half the branch­es are bare, the leaves tossed around and away like bright embers. I’ve missed the pho­to­graph I had want­ed to take of the full red tree. Mean­while the lake across the street and… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Tran­sience

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On Insecurity

A fair num­ber of my clients — man­agers and exec­u­tives — at some point in our work togeth­er express inse­cu­ri­ty. This takes many dif­fer­ent forms, from won­der­ing about their val­ue as lead­ers to wor­ry­ing they are imposters to a clear avoid­ance of tough top­ics or evi­dent con­flicts in their rela­tion­ships. It comes through as a… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Inse­cu­ri­ty

On Not Wanting to Know

I attend­ed a con­fer­ence late­ly on open sci­ence where one of the speak­ers dis­cussed how we can now cre­ate detailed human genet­ic pro­files. For exam­ple, it is pos­si­ble to give a preg­nant woman or a new mom knowl­edge of all the dis­eases to which her baby might be sus­cep­ti­ble. But, it turns out, there’s a… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Not Want­i­ng to Know