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Personal Psychology

A collection of 4 issues

Torturous Chaos, Until It Isn’t

Jason Cohen is talking about bootstrapping startups here, but it might as well be about job searching in this market. These things mean you haven’t yet succeeded, but neither do they prove that you’re failing. It’s always like this until it isn’t. It’s like this

Being misunderstood is the price of an interesting life

I attended our high school year reunion (10 years!). It magnified my chronic problem of answering two simple questions: What do you do? And what have you been up to? I’m currently Research Director, managing global operations, of a New York-based tech startup called OnFrontiers. Before that, I did

Be a woman who wrestles

I was on a 2-month North America speaking tour. We were in Boulder in Colorado, and I was the only female speaker. During Q&A, a young woman asked me, How do you overcome biases against women in business? My response was that it’s not something I think

What sitting taught me about work: notes from a Vipassana course

I completed my first 10-day Vipassana silent meditation course last Sunday, May 22, 2016. Upon returning, people asked me how the course was. I have never had a harder time responding to this question. Now that I’ve reflected on it, this is my response — why it’s tough to