A friend recently asked me how to recognize a good project manager. They were asking for the purposes of hiring, so I don’t think my answer was much help. I…
Author: <span class="vcard">Melanie</span>
My husband and I just bought a Tesla. It is a very different buying experience – done primarily by website and text message. Being an engineer and a project manager,…
I am several books behind on my project of writing up the ideas I have taken from the books I’ve read. This is partly due to the fact that writing…
A few weeks ago, I listened to Krista Tippett’s interview with artist and author Maira Kalman. It is a great interview, and I really enjoyed listening to it. But when…
You may have seen me post on Twitter about the fact that I have recently returned from a wonderful three week vacation in New Zealand. (I posted a summary of…
Last weekend, I saw Bohemian Rhapsody, the Freddie Mercury biopic. I was not a huge Queen fan growing up, so although I knew the broad outlines of the story, the…
I heard Ezra Klein interview Johann Hari on his podcast, and was intrigued by the premise of his new book, Lost Connections. The book is an exploration of the ways…
Writing a post about Laura Vanderkam’s latest book, Off the Clock, has been on my to do list for an embarrassingly long time. I could say I didn’t have the…
A couple of weeks ago, I got a craving for a caramel slice. This is my favorite dessert when I am in New Zealand: a shortbread base, a thick layer…
I have a reader question I’ve wanted to answer in a post for awhile, but starting a new job, then losing that job, then finding another new job, and then…