Author Archives: Stan
Career planning advice from Lou Paglialonga
How should one think about a career? The best advice I got about this was from my first boss in Corporate Land. Lou said, “Don’t trust anyone else with your future.” He went on to explain. “No one can unconditionally … Continue reading
Really living
[This is a guest piece from Serra Sewitch-Posey, reprinted from her Substack channel with permission. Copyright 2025 Serra Sewitch-Posey.] A local artist I admire did a post about a good friend of hers who just died. He was not an … Continue reading
Can you help me solve a decades-old mystery?
Of all the burning questions that might consume one’s days and sleepless nights, there is one that has followed me throughout my life and travels, across the globe. And this one appears as inscrutable as the question of how to … Continue reading
Career advice in a fortune cookie
It’s easy for us wizened veterans of the world of work to forget how important it used to be to get a promotion, a bigger-sounding title, a higher-than-average pay raise. We have the perspective of longer history and seeing many … Continue reading