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What Works?
A brief reflection on effectiveness
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Tara McMullin
How to Rethink Work Stress
The stress of work can be especially tricky to describe for creative and knowledge workers who love what they do. That doesn't make it less real.
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Tara McMullin
How to Feel Good About Going Slow
I love going fast. But here's how I also learned to love being patient and enjoying the process.
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Tara McMullin
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Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey Stuff
This might be the one time of year when we experience time as it is—rather than how we measure it.
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Tara McMullin
How A Syllabus Could Change The Way You Plan
Planners and project management apps reinforce linear, chronological thinking. What if we used a completely different medium to plan for growth?
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Tara McMullin
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Sean McMullin
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Planning to Learn
Decorative gourd season has come & gone—which means it's now end-of-year review season.
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Tara McMullin
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Poof! Work's Disappearing Act is a Cheap Trick
Despite promises to save time and energy, most labor-saving innovations transfer work rather than eliminate it.
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Tara McMullin
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When The Voice In Your Head Whispers... Meritocracy
Meritocracy sounds great when you're on the side of opportunity. But personal setbacks and systemic oppression can easily turn meritocracy into the…
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Tara McMullin
Our Choosing Skills are Rusty
Chatbot life coaches, goal-setting, self-dogification, and how we've gotten so out of practice with making our lives our own.
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Tara McMullin
The Eggbeater Effect: How Time-Saving Technology Just Makes For More Work
Before there were egg beaters, there were women with whisks and spoons beating eggs. As a woman who bakes and also owns a KitchenAid Pro stand mixer…
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Tara McMullin
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