Perspectives on community, mentorship, and engagement

“Any feedback?” almost always gets you “looks good to me.” This article is about why that question gets you nothing, how to ask for feedback in a way that gets a real answer, and how specific questions turn into people who advocate for your work.

At some point in almost every professional’s career someone decides what their silence means. They are not engaged. They do not have opinions. They are not leadership material. They are too quiet. This article is about what that label is actually measuring and what changes when you reframe it.

There is a version of yes that has nothing to do with willingness. It is the yes you give when you are already at capacity and saying no feels harder than just figuring it out later. This article is about what to say instead and why the honest answer serves everyone better.

I did not set out to build an audience. I set out to build a company. When I hit 20,000 followers earlier this month I sat with that number and asked myself what it actually meant. Here is what growing this community taught me about what people are actually looking for.

We're three months into 2023 and it's been about three years now since COVID-19 disrupted the world of work, ushering in a new era of...