In a wonderful book of illustrated Katas by Zhizhong Cai, I discovered a story that has sustained me through many troubled times at work. The Doctor In this story, a doctor assigned to a medieval Chinese MASH unit patches up yet another soldier and sends him back out to fight with his unit. When the …
The season of trying to change ourselves is rapidly approaching. Changing yourself can seem hard. Sometimes everything about changing yourself can seem hard. First, you have to recognize that you need to change. Then you have to commit to changing. Only then can you figure out what you need to change to. And then you …
“Look, when you get here early in the morning, just drop by his office and say Hi. And if he asks you out for drinks, go.” It was one of the best pieces of advice anyone ever gave me. And it was the hardest for me to act on. It required a level of courage …
Sometimes, early in the morning before the city wakes up, lying in bed, I hear the silence like the pause between breaths. And in that silence, I hear a train. I hear the squeal of the wheels on the track, sometimes the singing of the brakes. Sometimes I hear the long, drawn-out whistle that tells …
I know I haven't been writing for a while. Here's why: Several weeks ago, I started feeling a strange sensation in the region of my gallbladder, which manifested after a particularly hedonistic weekend involving a great deal of cheese. It felt like what the internet described as resembling gallbladder problems. My sister had gallstones so …
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