Some days, it feels like the only thing we can agree on is that we can’t agree — on anything. Drawing on her background as a world debate champion, Julia Dhar offers three techniques to reshape the way we talk to each other so we can start disagreeing productively and finding common ground — over […]
Which box do I check?
How we identify makes a difference in our lived experiences, but it’s not always reflected in the checkboxes we see on forms. In this episode, Mona Chalabi explores why language matters in data collection, and why the categories we use should reflect who we really are.
An ER doctor on triaging your “crazy busy” life
How do doctors in the emergency room stay calm and focused amidst the chaos? Drawing on years of experience, ER doctor Darria Long shares a straightforward framework to help you take back control and feel less overwhelmed when life starts to get “crazy busy.”
What we miss when we focus on the average
It’s tempting to focus on averages when we think about data, but the world is a lot messier than those numbers can make it out to be. So what could we gain if we shifted our attention to the outliers in the data, or as data journalist Mona Chalabi likes to call them, the lost […]
Vienna
Some of the places I visited or wanted to visit on my trip to Vienna 🙂
Paphos
Some of the places I visited or wanted to visit on my trip to Paphos 🙂
Iceland
Some of the places I visited or wanted to visit on my trip to Iceland 🙂
Stockholm
Some of the places I visited or wanted to visit on my trip to Stockholm 🙂
Why Diversity in Product Matters
Özlem is a passionate, highly skilled and knowledgeable product consultant who leverages modern management principles, practices and methods. By influencing the way people think and act in the complex environment of product development, she enables organisations to innovate faster. Less than 30% of staff at Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft and Twitter are women. […]
My identity is a superpower not an obstacle
America Ferrera (Ugly Betty) talks about how presence creates possibility and how powerful representation of culture in the world, particularly in media is.