Starting again
There's something clarifying about choosing to begin something. Even if what you're beginning is just a blog.
Essays & Reflections
Honest writing about work, city life, and figuring things out in your twenties — one essay at a time.
Writing
10 pieces
There's something clarifying about choosing to begin something. Even if what you're beginning is just a blog.
The most capable people I've worked with were almost never the loudest ones.
Distance changes how you see the place you're from. Mostly it makes you more grateful for it.
The best thing I can do on a pitch is make the person next to me look better. That turns out to apply to most things.
Most of the work happens before you walk in the room. Here's what I've learned from getting it wrong, then right.
The city doesn't make room for you. You have to carve out your own piece of it.
Nobody talks about reliability as a skill. It might be the most important one.
Pretending to understand was costing me more than admitting I didn't.
Everyone starts somewhere. Here's how to make the most of what you actually have.
I was handed something real and told to get on with it. That turned out to be the whole education.