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I’m a huge nerd, and I’ve been watching Hardball with Chris Matthews since 1999. It’s not always a smoothly produced show, and there were times in the past when Chris Matthews seemed drunk, but — like The McLaughlin Group — it’s one of those shows that has influenced my generation. Over the years, I’ve come…

I used to think there were a lot of buzzwords and jargon in HR, especially when it came to the war for talent and searching for the purple squirrel. Then I worked in marketing, and I learned to dimensionalize everything and evolve the brand. But, now that I have a nascent software company, I’ve discovered…

I quit social media in the month of February. The thing about being in HR is that I have “industrial psychologists” for friends, and they don’t let me get away with anything. Apparently, I haven’t quit social media. I might be detoxing from social media by only checking my feeds in the morning and night.…

I started my job as a writer and speaker in 2007. I began traveling around the country and telling people how much I hated HR and recruiting. It wasn’t a super sophisticated message, but I just wanted my fellow colleagues to know that they could do better. Like, don’t you want more for yourself? And,…

Psychologists say that people with high anxiety levels benefit from a daily calendar and morning routines. So, for years, I’ve tried to wake up early and make sure that I schedule all types of stuff on my calendar: sleep, breakfast, writing, email, running, pilates, mindfulness, cross-training, water breaks, afternoon snacks, micro-naps, and even accountability meetings…