Can the way you write be problematic in a multigenerational workplace? I didn’t think so until I read linguist Gretchen McCulloch’s new book, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language. She makes the case that the internet has changed language significantly. It’s created a divide between those who learned to write in an analog […]
Last summer during my college reunion, my friends and I perused the schedule of seminars offered each morning and decided to attend one called, “Supercharge Your Career.” I thought this was terribly amusing. After all, as 60-somethings, our careers were pretty much over–at least according to traditional norms. Because the reunion weekend hosted all graduation […]
Do you harbor a little stress around using the newest tech tools at work? The solution is to take a Slack class, right? Or should you start with GSuite? While that’s a good plan, the easiest place to start may not be a class at all. Instead, tech meta-learning is a shortcut to handle any […]
I recently left work at an early stage startup, which was certainly the most interesting and intense four years of my career. As a fifty-something in a company of twenty- and thirty-somethings, I was like a tourist in another country, sometimes feeling quite “foreign,” even while totally intrigued. Early on at the job, I remember […]
