Thought Leadership

What’s going to save us from the robots. Turns out it’s that art degree, creativity, and emotional intelligence.

As a lifelong creative, or as anyone doing much of anything, it’s hard to escape the focus on STEM in education, the gloom and doom of “automation, and artificial intelligence will steal all jobs,” as well as the general reverence of “tech above all else” (which is a whole other blog post, but I digress.)…

The Powerful Lessons a Skull Candy Bowl Taught Me.

Back in my late 20s, I got my first job managing a team of creatives. With a rising sense of panic and feeling like “surely, someone must have made a mistake here,” my husband sensed my anxiety and gave me some solid advice:
“Get a candy bowl.”
“I am freaking out, stop making fun of me.”
“People are much less likely to be assholes to people who mainline them chocolate.”

And Now for Something Completely Different.

Americans are nothing if not driven and very much into their careers. The American dream didn’t come about by people dillydallying around with hobbies and taking breaks, now did it? When I first moved to the States, some 20 years ago this message came through loud and clear. Year by year, I have become less European and more American in my ambition and workaholic tendencies.