The Story Economy Blog

I’ve always been kind of an outlier. Not demographically or in a way that is apparent to others. After all, I’m a middle-aged, middle-income, brown-haired, blue-eyed white girl, who lives in a quiet suburban neighborhood in Ohio and follows a…

Last week, I got a new MacBook Pro. It’s the seventh or eighth Mac I’ve bought in the 20+ years I’ve been a computer user. My first new one was 1996, when I went off to graduate school. I don’t recall it being stressful, because all I had to do…

Transparency is a word that has come up in several of my conversations with clients in the past week. I’m also reading Dan Ariely’s book, The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty, so questions of honesty and disclosure are really on the brain right…

Have you ever launched a new web site? I have. Six or seven times now. It’s really hard. It plays with your sense of timing. You think it will never be done or ready, right up until the minute it goes live. And then, suddenly, it’s there in the…

I did not enjoy January. It was a month dominated by my conflicting urges to scream as loudly as possible and hide in heartbreaking silence. And that was just when I read the news. It was a month filled with divisiveness and pain. Literally, I had the…