I recently spent a week in bed. No, not in the John Lennon-Yoko Ono love-in kind of way; rather, the “I feel like crap and don’t want to move” model. I forsook Twitter and became strangely obsessed instead with the…

I’ve never been much for office politics (or offices for that matter), but conversation is another story. Conversation matters. It breaks up the day. It gives you a mental break. Plus we all need someone with whom we can bounce…

Go take a hike. Or a walk. (After you finish reading this post, of course.) But, seriously, taking a timeout isn’t just for preschoolers.The problem with workshifting is that there’s no one to schedule your life. No built in co-workers…

By the time I was 6 months old, I’d traveled by train, plane, ship, and automobile. A few years later, my brother and I each had a “toy bag” for travel into which we could put any combination of books…

My first laptop weighed 17 pounds, and I loved it. It made me mobile, if in a battleship kind of way. My second laptop was about 12 pounds, and I loved that it didn’t require an extra large computer bag…

We often ask people where they like to workshift. But we don’t ask an arguably more interesting question: Why do you hang out there?I know one colleague whose favorite location is a social Starbucks because it’s a great place to…

Two business researchers have a study coming out that suggests that many workers are afraid to speak out lest they be mocked by their peers and bosses. According to an HBR blog post, “we relentlessly work to avoid ‘image risks,’…