I use the phrase “Messy Humans” to remind people I’m coaching that it’s ok to be imperfect. Especially when we’re navigating rapid change in software environments. Let's talk about what it *really* means to be messy humans at work.
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Essays by Heather Havrilesky, Ask Polly columnist and author of Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage (2022), What If This Were Enough? (2018), How to Be a Person in the World (2016), and Disaster Preparedness (2011)
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