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Candidates propose ending federal taxes on tipped income—what's that got to do with you? I'll explain.
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Tara McMullin
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'The Creator Economy Is Eating Creative Acts'
This moment on the internet is weird—and more than a little frustrating. I sat down with Charlie Gilkey and Kate Tyson to hash it out.
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Tara McMullin
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Charlie Gilkey
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Practicing the Future: 3 Ideas for Rethinking Change
I feel trapped in the present. It's time to get back to shaping change.
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Tara McMullin
Boundary-breaking Resourcefulness
The way we frame a problem determines how we understand what resources are required and how we might procure them.
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Tara McMullin
Main Character Energy: 3 Ideas for Rethinking Stories
Wherein I discuss incontinence products, whole-body deodorant, and "The Tortoise and the Hare" to examine what happens when we think we're 'just…
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Sorry (Not Sorry), Self-Promotion Doesn't Work
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How A Syllabus Could Change The Way You Plan
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Quid Pro No Thank You
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'The Creator Economy Is Eating Creative Acts'
 • Tara McMullin, Charlie Gilkey, and Kate Tyson
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Rethinking work, business, and leadership for the 21st-century economy

Decoding Empathy

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How to Make Room for Others
How can we reimagine our practices, systems, and norms to invite everyone to participate and contribute?
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Tara McMullin
Learning Empathy from Copywriters & Doppelgangers
Copywriting gave me a toolkit for cognitive empathy. So I asked a copywriter to tell me how she does what she does.
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Tara McMullin
Decoding Accessibility and Sparking Wonder
Questions about accessibility are really questions that wonder about who gets to be together and how they gather.
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Tara McMullin
A Brand is a Constellation
The mythical norm, visibility bias, emerging from the margins, and expanding our circle of recognition
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Decoding the Language of Empathy
Ask 100 people what empathy is, and you'll get 100 different answers. Yet, empathy is billed as an essential "soft skill" for today's world of work. So…
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Work

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Boundary-breaking Resourcefulness
The way we frame a problem determines how we understand what resources are required and how we might procure them.
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Tara McMullin
Cult Value
If a chatbot writes your novel, did you really complete NaNoWriMo? And other questions about what we might lose when we delegate or automate meaningful…
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Tara McMullin
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The Business Casual Economy
We need creative economic and labor policy that recognizes the growing number of people who straddle the gaping divide between formal employment …
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Tara McMullin
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The Life (and Work) of Luxury
A brief reflection on a summer of college visits
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Tara McMullin
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Making Sense of a Flop Era
Stuck in a cycle of near misses and unwanted outcomes? Here's why—and some ideas for what to do about it.
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Tara McMullin
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What We Get Wrong About The Middle Ground
Finding compromise requires recognizing the full context of a negotiation.
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Tara McMullin
What Works
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What Works is a newsletter and podcast about work, the many ways it shapes us, and how we can better shape it.
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This Is Not Advice

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Why Nachos Aren't on the Menu
Or, how do you decide to expand your business to include a new product or service offering?
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Tara McMullin
How Structure Transforms Our Ideas
The way we structure our work can turn mere information into stories and wisdom.
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Process Entropy and Process Evolution
If you're waiting for the day your business, system, or process runs itself, you'll be waiting forever. Change happens—what we do with it is what…
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Making What Can't Be Sold
How do you turn a jumble of thoughts into a cohesive project?
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Tara McMullin
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How A Syllabus Could Change The Way You Plan
Planners and project management apps reinforce linear, chronological thinking. What if we used a completely different medium to plan for growth?
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Tara McMullin
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Sean McMullin
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Productivity

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Practicing the Future: 3 Ideas for Rethinking Change
I feel trapped in the present. It's time to get back to shaping change.
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Tara McMullin
Boundary-breaking Resourcefulness
The way we frame a problem determines how we understand what resources are required and how we might procure them.
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Tara McMullin
In Defense of Inefficiency
Efficiency & productivity are great and all—but have you tried inefficiency?
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Tara McMullin
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Before Saying 'Yes' to Another Project...
Two questions I use to manage my tendency to overcommit
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Tara McMullin
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How to Give Yourself a Break with Progressive Overload & Periodization
Rest and recovery are critical to pursuing excellence in all its forms.
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Tara McMullin
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Rethinking work, business, and leadership for the 21st-century economy

Recent posts

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3 Ideas for Rethinking Care Work
What new possibilities might emerge from swapping our value for productivity with a value for reproductivity?
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Tara McMullin
Metrics Never Speak for Themselves
How we interpret the data all around us is critical to achieving our goals and maintaining our equilibrium.
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Tara McMullin
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3 Ideas for Rethinking Systems
To change a system, you have to see that system—and how it plugs into the vast network of systems all around us.
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Tara McMullin
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3 Ideas for Rethinking Neurodiversity
We can make life and work better for everyone by embracing the politics of neurodiversity.
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Tara McMullin
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Cult Value
If a chatbot writes your novel, did you really complete NaNoWriMo? And other questions about what we might lose when we delegate or automate meaningful…
 • 
Tara McMullin
1
In Defense of Inefficiency
Efficiency & productivity are great and all—but have you tried inefficiency?
 • 
Tara McMullin
1
The Business Casual Economy
We need creative economic and labor policy that recognizes the growing number of people who straddle the gaping divide between formal employment …
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Tara McMullin
1
The Life (and Work) of Luxury
A brief reflection on a summer of college visits
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Tara McMullin
1
Questioning What's Better
'Better' can be a watchword that tips us off to beliefs and rubrics that need to be questioned.
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Tara McMullin
1
Making Sense of a Flop Era
Stuck in a cycle of near misses and unwanted outcomes? Here's why—and some ideas for what to do about it.
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Tara McMullin
4
Values Aren't Chains; They Are Wings
Some may use 'values' against us. But we can use them to fly.
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Tara McMullin
What We Get Wrong About The Middle Ground
Finding compromise requires recognizing the full context of a negotiation.
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Tara McMullin
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