Monday, February 9, 2015

Challenges: Could You Go 40 Days Without Being Mean?

Fascinating and one of my favorite things I've read all month:
...I considered the ghastly, likely possibility that my whole personality was merely a result of wanting attention. And then I talked to Penny Pexman, a sort of sarcasm scholar at the University of Calgary, whose analysis was even more grim. “Complaining, being skeptical, and being critical are all ways of trying to show people you’re smarter than they are,” she said...
Read more in NY Mag.

Nice find, via 10Thoughts

Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were

"It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers." Read more in the NYT .