A Space For Our Thoughts

Let me set the scene. It's February 8th. You're on the couch with your chips, your team just fumbled, and then — halftime. A Puerto Rican kid from Vega Baja walks out of a sugarcane field in an all-white jersey, performing almost entirely in Spanish to the most-watched television audience in the country. Lady Gaga shows up in a tropical dress. Ricky Martin is there being Ricky Martin . And then — and I cannot stress this enough — somebody got married  on the 50-yard line. Six

Earlier this year, I found myself rewatching The Office —that mockumentary about a paper company that somehow still feels uncomfortably relevant in 2026. In one episode, a "leadership moment" goes completely off the rails: there's a big announcement, a half-baked plan, and a room full of people trying to look engaged while clearly bracing for impact. It's played for comedy, but if you've ever worked on a real team, the jokes land because they're familiar. You see work dumped

I still remember those Monday mornings when I'd walk into our Manhattan office near Grand Central Station and immediately feel it—that heaviness in the air that tells you something's wrong before anyone says a word. For the first couple of years, it had been an amazing place to work. This was before COVID-19, back when we all came into the office every day. As a designer at this large international publishing and events company serving specialized business markets, I loved th

Kenya was beautiful. The energy of the place makes you believe in fresh starts and second chances. The food, the people, the character—everything felt alive in a way that made me remember why Samira and I dream of relocating there with our kids. For three weeks, I walked through Nairobi and Mombasa with my family, breathing in possibility and exhaling the stress of a challenging year. But it was in a stairwell in Mombasa where I learned the most important lesson of the trip.

If there's one truth that 2025 has reinforced, it's this: we don't control nearly as much as we think we do. And perhaps that's exactly the lesson we needed. I remember the day in October 2024 when I learned about my layoff. I was sitting in my home office in Atlanta, staring at my screen as the virtual meeting ended—the same space where I'd logged countless hours of work, where I'd built relationships with clients and teammates, where I'd convinced myself that stability was

A little over a year ago, I wrote an open letter to PwC's new US Senior Partner  after being one of 1,800 people laid off in what was then described as the firm's first formal layoffs since 2009. I wrote that letter with hope—hope that the painful lessons from that mass departure would lead to more empathetic leadership, that the remaining employees would be treated with the dignity and care they deserved, and that the firm would use this moment as an opportunity to rebuild a

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Finding Spiritual Renewal in Times of Uncertainty This past weekend, my family and I joined a retreat for Black Muslim families—a gathering that has become an anchor in our lives for three years running. Each year, we travel to a different state across the country to join with other families who understand the unique intersection of our identities, our faith, and our commitment to community. There's something profound about getting up before sunrise, gathering in the pre-dawn

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