Have you ever taken a personality test? If you’re like me, you’ve consulted BuzzFeed and you know exactly which Taylor Swift song “perfectly matches your vibe.”
It might be obvious that internet quizzes are not scientific, but many of the seemingly…
On July 3, 2023, the Supreme Court overturned affirmative action, prohibiting U.S. colleges and universities from considering an applicant’s race during the admissions process.
Stephen Miller, former Trump White House adviser and president of…
In a packed auditorium at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, toward the end of Steve Jobs’s penultimate keynote before he stepped down as CEO, he said, “It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough—it’s technology married wit…
Venture Capital (VC) can be a rewarding place you could invest your money. But nowadays, some are reconsidering whether to invest in VC as an asset class at all. A number of VCs have responded by “reducing risk” and slowing their investments. I’m a VC…
I may never retire. I love working, and I’ve found that I’m not alone in dreading the idea of solely filling my later years with bingo and boredom. Nonetheless, I don’t see myself clocking in 9-to-5, either. With the current workforce nearing retireme…
When Selena Gomez conceived of Rare Beauty, she was hoping to build a beauty brand that would bring visibility to mental health issues. Gomez had already been open about her own diagnosis and experience with bipolar disorder. The brand launched in 202…
Despite misconceptions and stereotypes—ranging from what librarians Gretchen Keer and Andrew Carlos have described as the “middle-aged, bun-wearing, comfortably shod, shushing librarian” to the “sexy librarian . . . and the hipster or tattooed librari…
Executive leaders are often required to make tough (and unpopular) strategic decisions. As a result, many may use manipulation—sometimes unintentionally—to influence their peers and bring them short-term gains. Unsurprisingly, there are many seri…
Your organization is full of people making decisions in pursuit of purpose. To invest or divest, to increase prices or not, to introduce a product, or to pull another. Their decisions collectively determine the success or failure of the organization.&…
Amazon’s recent return-to-office (RTO) mandate, which dictates that employees must work from an Amazon office five days per week, exemplifies a concerning trend of leaders attempting to turn back the clock to old management practices in a misguided at…
