Working from home has a lot going for it—no commuting through bumper-to-bumper traffic, more flexibility, a kitchen that’s all yours for lunch and the ability to run a load of laundry while you’re in a meeting. It’s easier to take care of kids and pets. You can wear...
As a writer, I admit I’m especially sensitive to bad writing when I see it out in the wild. And I feel like I’ve seen a lot of it lately: just content-factory crap getting churned out by the bucketful, if I can be so blunt. So much of it lacks originality, empathy,...
The changing cadence of work Have you read about the “Dead Zone” yet? It’s that time between 4:00-6:00pm every day when remote work productivity takes a nosedive. A lot of remote workers log out of their screens to pick up their kids, make dinner, or just take a...
My friend Mary Beth from Mobile, Alabama once told me something foundational about Southern culture: “You can commit any number of crimes and still be invited back to a party, except for one: being a bore.” It turns out, that quirky, wonderful aspect of Southern...
Have you started using AI in business communications yet? The AI text-generator chatbot choices abound: ChatGPT, Google Bard, Microsoft Bing, and so many others. Are these chatbots the greatest invention since the dawn of time? Or the beginning of the end of human...
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