What we miss when we focus on the average

It’s tempting to focus on averages when we think about data, but the world is a lot messier than those numbers can make it out to be. So what could we gain if we shifted our attention to the outliers in the data, or as data journalist Mona Chalabi likes to call them, the lost […]

Vienna

Some of the places I visited or wanted to visit on my trip to Vienna ๐Ÿ™‚

Paphos

Some of the places I visited or wanted to visit on my trip to Paphos ๐Ÿ™‚

Iceland

Some of the places I visited or wanted to visit on my trip to Iceland ๐Ÿ™‚

Stockholm

Some of the places I visited or wanted to visit on my trip to Stockholm ๐Ÿ™‚

Why Diversity in Product Matters

ร–zlem is a passionate, highly skilled and knowledgeable product consultant who leverages modern management principles, practices and methods. By influencing the way people think and act in the complex environment of product development, she enables organisations to innovate faster. Less than 30% of staff at Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft and Twitter are women. […]

My identity is a superpower not an obstacle

America Ferrera (Ugly Betty) talks about how presence creates possibility and how powerful representation of culture in the world, particularly in media is.

How language shapes the way we think

Something I try to be aware of and have talked to my team about (likely to their dismay) is the importance of precision of language and the impact the words you can use can have. Consider the difference in how you might feel reading โ€œyouโ€™re bad at thisโ€ vs. โ€œan area to develop may be […]

5 exercises to help you build more empathy

Empathy โ€” or understanding the thoughts and feelings of the people around us โ€” is one of the most important and most trying parts of being social creatures. But what exactly is empathy? And crucially, can we have more? Stanford psychology professor Jamil Zaki PhD, director of the Social Neuroscience Laboratory there, studies these very questions. In […]

3 secrets of resilient people

Resilience researcher Lucy Hone shares three hard-won strategies for developing the capacity to brave adversity, overcome struggle and face whatever may come head-on with fortitude and grace. These three techniques are something I try too practice (not always successfully in the moment) and find incredibly valuable.