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Millennials are living at home in greater numbers than ever before. Are they just overly indulged wimps?

You may have heard that millennials are living at home more than young people in previous generations. In 2014, the number of young women living with their parents eclipsed their counterparts in 1940, and last year 43% of young men were living at home, which is the highest rate since 1940. I’m trying to maintain…

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Stop saying that women are beautiful.

I was speaking at a conference recently. There were seven speakers in all – five women and two men. Each of us was introduced prior to our talk by one of the organizers. During the introductions of three of the five female speakers, the organizer mentioned the woman’s physical appearance. “… the brilliant and beautiful…”…

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I have seen the devil, and he looks something like this.

You probably thought the devil looks something like this: Wrong. I have seen the devil, and he looks a lot more like this:  For the record, I don’t actually believe that the devil exists at all. Unless the machines rise up and take over the world. If so, then yes, the Ecolog 590D and the…

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Boy vs. Girl: Episode 3 – Gender-Neutral Bathrooms, Salutations, and Bathing Suit Bottoms

Episode 3 of Boy Vs. Girl, our podcast about gender and gender stereotypes, dropped today. Listen to Rachel and I discuss the problems with gender neutral bathroom, the need to change female salutations, and the real reasons why women wear form-fitting bathing suit bottoms and men do not. If you’ve missed any of our previous…

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Two death bed mysteries and one piece of death bed advice

Why do we climb into bed at night but lie on our death bed?  Strange. Right? Speaking on death beds, why do so many people die in the absence of music?  I have no intention of ever dying, but if I was ever lying on my death bed (merely hypothetical), there would be music playing…

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7 more ways that saboteurs attempt to destroy workplace productivity

Last week I wrote about the myriad of ways that productivity is destroyed at the workplace – both intentionally via an OSS manual from World War II as well as my own observations. Reader Anne McGrath – who used to consult with non profit groups and now does organizational assessments, offered these additions to the list…

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Underoos: Possibly inappropriate. Mildly exploitative. Creepy, even?

I mentioned underoos in class last week, and it turns out that none of my students are aware of the matching top-and-bottom underwear featuring superheroes, Star Wars characters and other heroic characters that dominated so much of my childhood. Underoos were so ubiquitous when I was a kid that I assumed they still exist today,…

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My “Diet Coke and aggressive attitude” didn’t exactly match the yoga aesthetic, but I somehow managed to fit in anyway.

Last weekend, I performed 90 minutes of storytelling to a capacity crowd at Kripalu, a yoga and fitness center in the Berkshires. I spent the weekend at Kripalu, teaching a weekend-long storytelling workshop to about two dozen people, but the show on Saturday night was open to the general public. The room was crowded and…

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If only we all had this problem…

My son, Charlie, has been doing an outstanding job in regards to his potty training. He is in underwear almost all of the time now and rarely has an accident.  Two hurdles that are still left to overcome: Charlie is terrified of the hand dryers in public restrooms and will flee the restroom as soon…

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100 Most Evil People Ever Experiment

I need your help. I’m conducting an experiment. In order to maintain the validity of this experiment, I cannot reveal my hypothesis at this time. But part of the experiment is to assemble a list of the 100 most evil people ever. These can be both real and/or fictional beings. Would you like to help?…

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