career
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Revelations + Destinations
Taking mine of you with me
I do not forget. It’s not that I have a capacious memory card installed in my brain, but I just…
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Revelations + Destinations
Confessions of a killer
Murderer. I look in the mirror and I see myself. Whole. Yet broken. No skin torn, bruises tattooed, wounds etched.…
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Revelations + Destinations
Lessons on adulthood
The thought of explaining the present to my younger self is downright terrifying. When I can barely grasp the complexities…
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Revelations + Destinations
Wallowing
In a few months, I will embody the stereotype of a social failure: past my mid-twenties, jobless, with no immediate…
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Revelations + Destinations
Taking stock
A few years ago, in my work in portfolio risk management, I was given the task of conducting year-end backtesting.…
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Causes + Bosses
The great unknown
In June of 2008, I was as fresh as a college freshman could be—bright-eyed, hopeful, excited. I was 16 years…
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Causes + Bosses
Tonight is the heaviest
It’s 2 a.m. at some apartment in a foreign country away from home. My colleagues are not with me. Two…
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Hooks + Books
Tick-tock
By the year 2000, I would be Mrs. X. I would be a mom. I would be an influential, powerful,…
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Causes + Bosses
My nexus event
Today I drafted my resignation letter. After I saved the file, I didn’t feel anything. Not worse, not better. I…
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