Writing

I'm a writer who makes a living writing about the workplace and technology. I also write personal essays and reported pieces on other topics that I find interesting. 

Recently I've been obsessed with the idea of the female midlife crisis, questioning whether it's a crisis at all. 

My essay on doing topical chemotherapy on my face is replete with pictures of me looking rashy, then sunburned, and then much worse.

Sometimes I write about sleep. I'm an expert on remote work and language learning software. It's a real mixed collection of topics.

I've published two books: The Everything Guide to Remote Work and Get Organized: How to Clean Up Your Messy Digital Life (now out of print). 

Every other week I send a short email about living abroad as a family member in the Foreign Service. Sign up here. My partner and I have lived in South India, Romania, Guatemala, and Laos. If any agents out there are looking for a book on why you should never take a dog on an international flight, I'm your writer. Before Foreign Service life, we lived in California, New York, and London. 

My work has also appeared in WIRED, BBC, PCMag (where I was a columnist for 13 years), FastCompany, Popular Science, Prevention, San Francisco Business Times, Refinery29, and other print and online publications. 

A few more of my favorite articles are:

Go On, F*ck Around at Your Desk Job. You Deserve It, PCMag

The body-clock science behind later school start times, BBC.com

What wartime ‘munitionettes’ can teach us about burnout, BBC.com

What Happened When 13 Workers Quit Email For A Week, FastCompany.com

I Wore a Brain Sensor Headband to Track Exactly How the Election Ruined Me, Medium Debugger