It’s easy to fall into the trap of seeing challenges at work as opportunities to mess up. I hear this a lot from mentees, especially when they’re dealing with high-pressure situations like production issues. Just the other day, I was chatting with a mentee who told me how stressful she finds production incidents. She said, […]

Feeling sick and relieved A few weeks ago I caught covid. It was a Sunday and I woke up with a itty bitty little cough. When it didn’t get better by late afternoon I finally tested. And by that night I had a fever. When I woke up Monday morning feeling terrible, I knew I […]

“There are lots of ways to help yourself out if you want to be more focused and motivated… and none of them involve calling yourself lazy or beating yourself up, both of which will decrease your motivation and your energy levels.” This is a series of posts about different negative thoughts I have on a […]

Whenever I ask someone “How many hours do you work a week?”, I follow up with the question “How many hours do you think about work a week?”. The answer to the second question is almost always noticeably higher than the answer to the first. As someone in a thinking profession – engineering, product, management […]