Dec 30, 2019
Guest Abigail Hing Wen has done a lot in her career: Harvard grad, lawyer, venture capitalist, and Silicon Valley A.I. expert. Now you can add novelist to her resume. Her book, Loveboat: Taipei, is a romantic comedy set on a real-life "educational" teen cruise for Asian-Americans, which is really just a hookup fest. On...
Dec 23, 2019
Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a New York Times feature writer and author of the best-selling novel Fleishman Is In Trouble. On this episode, I revisit my 2017 conversation with her (one of my first Write About Now podcasts ever). We talk about why she broke into the writing business after years of doubting herself, how she...
Dec 16, 2019
Andy Buckley plays David Wallace (aka Michael Scott’s first boss) on the U.S. version of The Office. Andy was a retired actor working for Meryl Lynch when a chance encounter at a local Farmers Market planted the seed for him to get a role on the show. Playing Wallace changed his life and his career. He went on to get...
Dec 9, 2019
Productivity guru Charlie Gilkey joins the show to talk about how to bring a project to fruition. Gilkey is the founder of Productive Flourishing and author of the new book Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done. We talk about how to decide on which projects to start and which to let go, creating what he calls a...
Dec 2, 2019
Guest Anne Helen Petersen is Senior Culture Writer for BuzzFeed News. Last year, Anne wrote a story for that website called How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation. The piece immediately went viral not only for its dead-on observations about the chronic stress that plagues her generation but also for its criticism...