Sometimes working at a beloved place is not what you expected.

Just because you had a good user experience at a nonprofit or a church or an academic institution does not mean that it’s going to be a good place to work. There are people who did well in school and they become professors or teachers or people who had a significant religious experience and they […]

While I live in Brooklyn

Someone asked me the other day whether I’ve become fully “Brooklynized” or if I’ll come to Manhattan for a social event. ⁣⁣I said that Brooklyn is just where I sleep and run errands. Manhattan is still where I live my life. ⁣⁣I live in Brooklyn in the sense that my things are there in my […]