The Vocabulary of Change Was Never Built for the Person Changing
Why “pivot,” “reinvention,” and “rightsizing” make transformation sound harder than it is.
Kevin Kermes
Fiction, interviews, and notes from the writing life, from the author of The Problem Seeker.
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