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- The Closure Plan: Ending a Group on Purpose
Groups get designed carefully at the start and improvised at the end. A closure plan form turned ending a group into a deliverable with real criteria.
- The Group Mentoring Agreement: Rules We Wrote Before We Needed Them
A group agreement gets written on day one, while everyone still feels fine. That timing is the whole point, and it's the step most teams skip.
- Conscious Capitalism as an Acceptance Criterion: Reading the Deck Skeptically
Conscious capitalism sounds unobjectionable until you ask what would count as failing it. Rewriting it as acceptance criteria is how I read a values deck now.
- The Merck Argentina Case: Localizing a Policy That Wasn't Built for the Place
A headquarters policy dropped into a country it was never designed for — and the Friday morning somebody asked for one small exception to it.
- My Favorite Speech: A 90-Second Teardown of a Motivational Speech
A 90-second locker-room speech from a Hindi film showed me that persuasion can work by handing the stakes back to the people who were doubted.
- Religiosity vs. GDP: A Regression That Passed Every Check — and a Causal Story It Can't Tell
A clean regression linked religiosity and GDP. That statistical cleanliness is exactly why the causal story needs more caution.
- Brave Spaces vs. Safe Spaces: What Group Coaching Taught Me About Holding a Room
Two group-coaching reflections became an audit of overthinking, silence, and the word that caught me off guard.
- What My Cultural Intelligence Assessment Said — and Whether It Was Right
A self-scored culture test labeled me a 'Chameleon.' The honest part was where my own scores disagreed with each other.
- Defining Fairness Through Accessibility: The Invisible Tax of Shifting Baselines
When a test measures barriers instead of ability, the score becomes evidence of the system around the person, not just the person.
- Exploring Psychopathology: Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
A film assignment taught me that addiction is rarely a single event — it's the cumulative result of pressure, pain, and lost connection.
- Looking Inward: What a BuzzFeed Quiz Taught Me About Myself
My professor assigned us a BuzzFeed quiz. I took it twice. I got 'underprivileged' twice. Here is what I found when I stopped pretending otherwise.