A friend recently told me a story about his son, a partner in a small law firm, who recently had to fire his administrative assistant. Why? Because she didn’t show up for work for a couple of days. No call, no text—nothing. When asked why she didn’t call in, her response was: “I didn’t want to bother you while you were at work.” Let that sink in for a second. In any workplace, the most basic expectation is that if you’re not coming to work, you call in. That’s true for every

(and what that teaches us about Age, Experience, and Empathy) Time is such a slippery thing. The clock ticks evenly, but our experience  of time stretches, collapses, or disappears entirely depending on where we are in life and how we’re living it. There’s a famous scene in Risky Business  where a teenage Tom Cruise is sitting in class, desperate for the final bell to ring. The second hand ticks backward. His face says everything: “Come on!” For him, time is crawling. For me,

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