I’ve been thinking recently about clarifying my approach to supporting people as a manager or a coach. It’s pretty simple and goes like this: I care about you. This is about building trust. I believe in you. This is about building confidence. Let’s look at it together. …

I’ve always worked as an employee until this year. This year I’m working for myself. Starting a new business. As an employee, as long as I was working, I was earning money. Somedays, my productivity would be low, and I would feel guilty. But I was still paid. Now that…

In my first job as a developer, I was scared to say I didn’t know something. I was a beginner, so I often had no idea what I needed to do or how to do it. And yet I felt that pressure of having to keep up the illusion of…

I’ve started to fill up my calendar again. Some things have to do with work, but I’m also scheduling things like reading and going for a walk. But now I’ve realised that just looking at a full calendar gives me anxiety. I try to look at each thing in it…

I never thought I would spend hours each week watching someone solve sudokus on youtube. And yet, in the chaos of the pandemic, finding this channel brought me the perfect mix of soothing and intellectually stimulating. I haven’t stopped watching. Cracking the Cryptic is a youtube channel dedicated to solving…

I went shopping today, looking for clothes suited to my new venture as a consultant. I’ve always worked in tech, where the dress code is very casual. Jeans, t-shirts and hoodies would be the norm. So they’ve always been my comfort zone. But now I am starting my own business…

When I worked at Facebook, before it became Meta, Sheryl Sandberg used to speak about hard conversations. I remember her concluding one of her addresses with a call to action: “Is there a hard conversation you have been avoiding? Go have that hard conversation today.” Hard conversations typically happen when…

I keep a list of things that make me happy above my desk. They are things that cheer me up even when I’m feeling down. They need to be things that are easy to do. I may not feel like doing them, but I know I’ll feel better simply doing…

I’ve always been taught to look on the bright side of things. This is something both my parents do and encourage, and something they passed down to my sister. It helps us rebound faster in many situations. If a plan is suddenly cancelled, we will often focus on what we…