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Category: Work life

  • You can’t get away, even if you try

    Looking to get away from it all? Chances are, you can’t! In just 20 short years, the tools we use to live our daily lives are completely screen-oriented. We can’t get away without leaving behind some responsibilities as colleagues, as clients, as friends, and as family. Any of these sound familiar? 📱 I would love…

  • The Peter Pan Problem: When Can Young Adults Grow up?

    BBC highlighted China’s trend of ‘full-time children’. But…let me edit this: More Young Workers in China Taking Career Breaks Due to Burnout and Unsustainable Corporate Culture. The term ‘full-time child’ is highly misleading, creating the image of a 20-something lying on the couch, eating Doritos. while their aging parents try to tend their needs. Reading…

  • Surprise! The 4 day work week actually works!

    AMEN. More 4-day workweek trial results are coming in hot and spicy! According to WSJ, “After six months, workers said they had less burnout, improved health and more job satisfaction, and had cut their average work time by about four hours to 34 hours a week.” The 40 hour workweek may be a helpful general…

  • Is remote work really working…and other silly questions

    What kind of propaganda is this nonsense? Not only does Mr. Rattner seem distressed about Americans lack of enthusiasm around work following the COVID-19 pandemic (because we all know that was a healthy experience for us all), he glorifies China’s 996 policy as “extraordinary” work ethic. Never mind the mental health implications, negative effects on…

  • Ignore your emails and save the planet

    As someone who’s never paid attention to the environmental impact of the internet, this is certainly a head turner. Particularly as video becomes a primary medium of entertainment and information consumption (YouTube, TikTok, Reels, oh my!), this statistic from French think tank The Shift Project was shocking: “Watching online videos accounts for the biggest chunk of the world’s internet…

  • Should Kids Dream Big Anymore?

    This The New York Times collection of mini interviews really zeroes in on the anxiety of post-graduate life…and the lack of big dreams. There’s hope in a lot of these reflections and definitely a desire to positively contribute to the world. But the short term tentativeness is painfully evident. Take Layla Flowers from University of Denver: “I…

  • It’s Ok Not to Be the Best At Everything…It’s Ok Not to Be the Best at Anything

    You don’t have to be an expert in everything. BUT I firmly believe that you should be aware of most things. You don’t have to be a data scientist – but you can understand a bit how data analytics work. You don’t have to know the ins and outs of machine learning – but you…

  • Caution! Women at Work

    I am dumbfounded – firstly, why don’t women, elite in their field, receive a proper support system? And secondly, I should have seen it coming. When people imagine women in workforce, the default image is an office worker. Maybe a teacher or health care professional. Women doing trade jobs like construction are rarely highlighted. And…

  • The Generational Debate: Find Something New to Fight About…I’m Done

    When I was younger, I loved a good fight. Anything I could stick my feet in the sand and debate someone until they had no serious arguments left. It was fun. It was exhilarating. It felt like winning. But somehow I was one the one losing. As do most winners of fights. The Circular Fight…

  • Let the Adults Be Bored

    A recent NYT article delved into the issue of boredom – and why it’s actually very good for kids in a world where every second is schedule from school to camps to meals to sports to sleep. But the author doesn’t touch on the equal importance of adult boredom. Kids aren’t the only ones over-scheduled…