women management thought leaders: don’t become a mommy manager!
women in management:
been thinking about this lately and i’ve got a rough draft hypothesis for why this happens
smthg smthg high visibility higher expectations and increased work load for the whole team bc of it, no confident pushback from the manager and she suffers and the team suffers
at some point in our life, after our journey from which we've returned a champion, after we've collected our brass trophies
after we buy the house in the country and win the jealousy of everyone we know
we will have to face that even here, there will be dishes
alas, even in our superior state, the dishes will still need washing, the clothes kept off the floor, and the broom to make an appearance once in a while
but no one taught us these skills, so how do we do it?
well, it seems we want a pie. so let's create a universe.
i once imagined inspiration as a golden pearl gifted to me at birth, from which i could shave small slivers to create stories and ideas and drawings and poems
i feared taking from this inspiration too much. it would be gone soon and then who would i be, without my pearl?
it’s true that taking from the pearl depletes it. if you look closely, you can see how some artists cling to their original vision until all they know how to do is rub the final shard though it has long since stopped giving.
but if you let it, the pearl can grow with you as you move through life. it can take on new shapes and be informed by honest witness.
experience accumulates in the shell; reflection polishes it
considering that maybe “luck” was an old word for intelligence. to describe the kind of person who knows how to swim with the currents of serendipity
i learned a few years ago that the greek navy has a place on their forms for judging whether sailors are fit specifically for luck, and that an unlucky sailor would never go to sea
i’ve been wondering what that could possibly mean ever since, and the best i figure is that they estimated these sailors were dumb but couldn’t quite pinpoint the place it which they made their mistake
it's a pity that a word that could be otherwise so rich in social meaning instead has the texture of wood-stained fiberglass and miniature plastic flags