Articles
2025
Who Are You Without Your Title?
One executive wrote their first design brief and realized they had asked for a career, not a life. We define ourselves so easily by what we do instead of who we are — and the two need to become one.
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2025
AI Is a Mirror
AI is a reflective tool that reveals what leaders can’t see about themselves: blind spots, stakeholder perceptions, misaligned values. Used well, it lets us prototype different futures — and see who we are in them.
September 2024
Fast Company
How to Maintain Professional Relationships When You’re Constantly Switching Jobs
Iterative careers made up of multiple chapters ask us to design our relationships as deliberately as our roles.
August 2024
Fast Company
This Is How You Develop (and Rekindle) Workplace Friendships
Friendship at work is not a soft extra. It is one of the strongest predictors of a long life you love.
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