You’ve been forwarded this article because someone cares about you. Maybe not so much you as much as the people who you care for. As many violent movies, murder mysteries or true crime episodes you may watch, discussing your own death is probably not so much fun. …

A magician explained to me the value proposition of education. When you first see an illusion you are entertained and intrigued. Misdirection or slight of hand fascinate individuals in the beginning. The same is true about amazing food, 50-yard field goals and doing your taxes. Watching someone perform the unthinkable…

Risk-reward scenarios are not universal, therefore the expectations on who will make conservative decisions and who will shoot for the stars becomes biased. When societal norms punish you for thinking outside of your expected box you collectively shepherd those you care about to play it safe as well. …

This fall my friend Chris wasn’t able to attend the rescheduling of the Jon Batiste Perspectives performance at Carnegie Hall, so he thoughtful gifted the tickets to my wife and I. This was a date night we very much needed because work and family had been a lot. Outside of…

Every day you show up for work a decision has been made. And if you choose to show up under protest, while unhappy or with unclear expectations, that is often on you. For years I showed up to a job that I couldn’t fix or leave because it was a…

My grandmother would explain her sister, Aunt Margaret, with one story. “She would never move to the back of the bus with us because ‘she’d been moved enough’ and nobody was brave enough to ask her and she wasn’t about to volunteer.” So when our creative team pitched a campaign…

Unfortunately I was never really good with social cues or etiquette. I’m even worse with hierarchy. I just like people. When I landed in corporate America I was a co-op student in a land full of folks I was supposed to wait behind. I happily did so. In the back…

I didn’t start wearing glasses until I was 30 and didn’t need them until I was 40. For decades I never noticed how glasses fit faces until I had to wear them. Once I began wearing glasses I’d spend two weeks every year obsessing about a new pair. Then I’d…

Sean McConnell was the Design Director for Special Make-Ups when Drew Greer introduced me. I was 6 months into my drafting job at Nike and was hoping to land a job in Design. A lot of people told me I was headed in the right direction so I should keep…