On admiring those who pick up the phone and make calls

I used to dread picking up the phone at to make a work call. If I had to made a work call, I'd procrastinate until the last minute. Even calling colleagues was dread-inducing. I've gotten over this dread...for the most part. But it came back to me this week, as it does occasionally, when I … Continue reading On admiring those who pick up the phone and make calls →

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 →