“It’s like being an astronaut on the International Space Station.” This is how I heard someone describe life during the pandemic. I think they were thinking of work, in particular, because of it’s solitary quality right now. So many of our interactions coming through a screen—at once close and distant. Maybe also on their mind […]

Each year, the good folks at Merriam-Webster crown a “Word of the Year” as a way to document the concept, phrase, or conversation that dominated the cultural zeitgeist. Late last year, to absolutely no one’s surprise, “pandemic” won the title. For 2021, it doesn’t take psychic powers to see the clear front-runner. “Hybrid work.” According […]