As a kid who grew up on the East Coast and spent many a summer day at the beach, I never cared for seashells. I would pick up the quality shell, of course, but combing the beach was never a pastime. I was happier digging for sand crabs and getting walloped by waves. So it … Continue reading On hunting for seashells
Tag: attention
On good noticing and doing more than getting through the day
It's been a rough back half of the week for my household. Our toddler has been sick and fussy, toggling between weepy desperation at his illness and sloppy mania when he's felt just marginally better. (Falling down several stairs being one side effect of such sloppiness.) Time has narrowed to a tunnel, and these long … Continue reading On good noticing and doing more than getting through the day
On the danger of asking your interview panel to take out their phones
There's a clip somewhere online of Simon Sinek bemoaning a new reality that many of us have come to groan about in this post-COVID era: QR codes for menus in restaurants. But Sinek doesn't wax nostalgic about paper menus or the poor structure of the new digital ones—he's concerned about how QR code menus are … Continue reading On the danger of asking your interview panel to take out their phones
On loving “event time” but living on “clock time”
An NPR segment the other day made a distinction I'd never heard of before: there are two types of people—those who live on "clock time" and those who live on "event time." (I don't love "two types of people" claims, but the segment did clarify that we all have a little bit of both types … Continue reading On loving “event time” but living on “clock time”
Taylor Coe 