Busy Isn’t the Same as Useful: Rethinking Where My Time Goes

Busy Isn’t the Same as Useful: Rethinking Where My Time Goes

For a long time, I wore my busyness like a badge. A packed calendar felt like proof that I mattered. If I filled every hour, I must have been doing something right. I took longer than I would like to admit to notice how much of that motion led nowhere. Busy and useful are not […]

What Mentoring Others Taught Me About Myself

The People I Mentored Ended Up Teaching Me

When people picture mentorship, they picture a one-way transfer: the experienced person pours knowledge into the inexperienced one. That is how I saw it too, at first. Years in, I have come to believe I got the better end of the deal. The people I have mentored have taught me more than I ever expected, […]