A mid-June batch of links
Since the previous batch of links went out, paying subscribers read two separate Q&As with outside guests, one with someone on maternity leave for the first time, the other a veteran career coach to executives. This coming weekend, they will receive my personal assessment on how my recent presentation went.
Below, you’ll find a batch of links that cover the themes of this newsletter: career development, community building, and self care.
The Smart Way to Coast at Work.
Carter Cast spent eight years as a middle manager at PepsiCo, feeling stuck and inpatient, he says, as his peers rocketed ahead. He used the time to shadow executives and think about what departments provided paths to the top. Soon, he was leapfrogging others there, and then at Walmart, where he rose to become chief executive of the retailer’s online division.
It’s time to stop feeling guilty about taking vacation. Here’s how.
Some Tech Companies Won't Say ‘Layoffs’ When Laying Off Workers. I don’t believe there is ‘right’ language for anything related to the most awful component of building companies, but there are certainly worse ways to express and to handle the situations. People hate to be let go.
Tulsa will pay you to live there. And you’ll love it.
Have You Been to the Library Lately? I believe as a result of the new way of work, and of living, that libraries have seen a resurgence. The talk around libraries before was that people could take out books without stepping foot inside a library, and now they have emerged again as places for people to gather within their communities.
NO ONE KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT SOCIAL MEDIA IS DOING TO TEENS.
Small Businesses Are Pioneering the Four-Day Workweek. Still not for me. Still in support of all alternatives that might appeal to others. Still don’t find that to be a contradiction.
Remote work is bad news for the lunch business in Center City.
Will AI spur a loss of craft among Gen Z and early career professionals?
On the flip side, early career professionals will have greater knowledge around using AI than their managers and higher-ups, who will likely lean on them to learn how to properly use the tools at work.
Here's how you can join an exclusive circle of 'champagne nomads'.
How to be more productive at work. He makes a great point about what goes wrong at every company, which is that employees are terrible at understanding what to agree to work on - and for how long, I’ll add - and what to reject working on, or at the very least to back burner in favor of more pressing available options.
Why Do Women Have More Sleep Issues Than Men?
The Leap to Leader. Lots of good advice in here, arguably too much. What I appreciate is the real-world examples cited, which sometimes is missing from similar pieces. These lists come alive much better when people can picture what you’re talking about, not just read vague ideas.
We are in a loneliness epidemic. Where you live can make a difference for your health and happiness.
Now that I don’t keep the Sabbath, the stretchiest my time feels is in an airport. I’m obsessively early for flights — so early that I sometimes get seated on the plane before mine — and I love the languid quality that an hour has when I’m wandering near my gate, choosing a Gatorade flavor to buy. Always, in Hudson News, there’s a shelf of books about turbocharging work: how to win the day, how to win the hour, how to influence God and your boss. I’ve wondered, lately, whether airports might consider a shelf for books about rest. There’s Stolzoff, Stauffer, Burkeman and Odell. These are inversions of beach reads, invitations not to escape but to luxuriate — books in search of a new texture for time.