THE INFAMOUS BLOG

The only reliable thing about human nature is that most of us cannot reliably predict the future. When given the opportunity to make important decisions, we often guess wrong. The concept of “uncertainty” is especially challenging for recruiters and HR professionals. We spend time and energy creating candidate pools and assessment models, and we devote…

I’m lucky to have smart people around me who offer advice on everything. This expertise comes in handy because I’m working on GlitchPath and looking to avoid the same mistakes that other entrepreneurs make when they launch a start-up. Recently, a friend of mind gave me some awesome advice. “Ask for money, you get advice.…

Hello from moderately warm and relatively sunny North Carolina. Trump has been president for about a week, and I haven’t been arrested. I need to try harder next week, but I’m busy. Here’s my story. I am in the middle of a UX/UI refresh at GlitchPath. I cannot believe those words came out of my…

I’m just back from the Women’s March on Washington. I’m not someone who enjoys standing in large crowds with hundreds of thousands of people in the gilded age of ISIS and gun crime, but I felt compelled to march because I don’t like being told what to do. It’s a challenge, really. There’s a fat…

The CEO of SHRM is retiring. What’s SHRM? It’s the AARP of HR professionals. They are an association that does commercials on CNN and tell everybody about how great it is to work in HR. And, like the people AARP who want us to believe that being an old lady is empowering, they are lying…