Why I Quit Coding: The Pain and Pleasure of Focus

Coding is demanding. One former coder explains why the workload just became too much. By Lauren Bacon (Author, The Boss of You) Last month, I sat in a dark auditorium in Austin, watching Edward Snowden in conversation with the ACLU’s Ben Wizner and Christopher...

What’s the “Tox” in a Digital Detox?

Is technology really so poisonous? What are we suddenly so afraid of? By Lauren Bacon (Author, The Boss of You)) When Rohan Gunatillake and I hosted our conversation at South by Southwest last weekend, the question we opened with was this: “When we refer to a...

Women in Tech and Empathy Work

Does your company undervalue empathy work?  By Lauren Bacon (Author, The Boss of You) I‘ve written before about the ongoing puzzle of improving the ratio of women to men in the tech sector. It’s an issue with many angles. There’s an acknowledged “pipeline problem” – a...

Scaling Up: 4 Things Your Growing Business Needs From You

You can’t create a solid people plan until you’ve made your peace with your fears around leadership and delegation. By Lauren Bacon (Author, The Boss of You) You have built a successful something. (A business, project, campaign, whatever.) You have sacrificed – are...