If only clicking a checkbox were enough to prove I'm human. #deepthoughtsbycaptcha. My team and I have been helping a lot of clients hire and train staff lately. And, well, we want humans on our staff and on our clients' staff. We build well-oiled machines, but we want humans to ... continue reading...

So it wasn't a liability thing. It wasn't a "The instructors don't want to do it" thing. It was a "We didn't ask" thing. (That is the SHORT version of an ongoing conversation we've been having about this situation.) If you don't ask, you don't get. This is literally my ... continue reading...

(I think the only person not experiencing an entire life upheaval is probably one living on a no-contact island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.) I'm not even gonna pretend that anything's normal or use "new normal." Nothing's normal.  What Now? If you're ... continue reading...

"So if clubs are trump (the winning suit), then the jack of spades becomes a jack of clubs." My best friend from first grade lives a block from my parents and while I've been awaiting home renovation to be complete, we've been hanging out. One gray Saturday, she, her ... continue reading...

A friend of mine shared something on Facebook that read like a punch in the face.  Well, that's not new! Plenty of Facebook reads like a punch in the face. But this was one of those little phrases — callouts, quotes, motivational mantras — that made me gasp.  Once I absorbed it (but ... continue reading...