The words we choose

In 2011, it was hard to get away from the song Pumped Up Kicks. More than a breakout hit for Foster the People, it was in all the air we breathe. Such a catchy tune. There’s an irony in its popularity, though: the homicidal musings of an angst-filled youth who...

Busy as a…

Busy beeing at work. An executive director once told me employees don’t have to be happy at work. I didn’t believe him, until I did. I had believed that a happy employee meant an engaged employee. Everyone wants engaged employees. They bring it: the A game, the...

Happy workiversary to me

Celebrate the good times and the less good times. It’s been one whole year since that nervous moment of the registry folks telling me that Unspun Communications, at least in name, was mine. Owning my own business used to be a utterance—a hex of sorts—but a happy place...