I’m aware that I’ve been slower than normal at getting posts up this July. This is partially because of a two-week road trip I took, but I can’t blame that really (I wrote the Van Gogh post from the beach). Blogging is as much playtime for me as any vacation activity I can think of. ...
Can we, as an industry, pause a moment and take a deep breath? Ahhhhh. Okay. Straight talk coming your way today, fair warning. I submit that as a profession, we: 1) Spend far too much time thinking about how our competition is pricing their work, 2) Misunderstand who our competition actually is, and 3) Waste...
When I started in photography, I frantically hoarded blogs on Google Reader, as if some crucial bit of photography knowledge would slip through my fingers unless I stayed on top of those feeds!! As time passed, I found my mile-high mountain of blogs eroding down to some gems that consistently provide outstandingly useful, educational, and...
I remember the moment with icy clarity. I was sitting in a Women in Science luncheon at a Very Fancy Hotel during a Very Important Science Conference. A panel of professional scientists was discussing work-life balance, and one woman cracked a joke that ended my career in research psychology: She said, “I think about data...
I admit I once grew tired of people telling me: “live your passion.” Of all the vague, dime-store psychology directives, that is possibly the least useful. What does it mean to ‘live your passion’? What is a passion? What would it look like to ‘live’ one? Cut the fluff. I need concrete steps, not poster-speak....
