PAUSE: Stories of tech, marketing, fairness, hormones

The Inevitability of Authenticity

Offering up a time capsule from my business blogging past that I think still resonates today: In 2005 I contributed to a business book unlike any I’d…

Apr 20, 2025 • Jory Des Jardins

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November 2024

My Life as a Blue Dot

Living your best life is hard enough without judging yourself.

Published on Optionality • Nov 20, 2024

April 2024

AI for 1099s

Everyone's putting out a shingle, but what does it really mean to be an AI expert?

Published on Optionality • Apr 23, 2024

December 2023

Long Plastic Arms

Remembering my editor, therapist, witness, mother.

Dec 17, 2023 • Jory Des Jardins

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July 2023

The Achievement Oriented Life: And Why It Exhausts Me

Am I Getting Dumber? Lazier? Or just more intentional?

Jul 31, 2023 • Jory Des Jardins

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January 2023

My Advice for Fulfillment in 2023: Stop Ignoring Yourself

Sometimes the most profound advice you can receive you already gave yourself.

Jan 1, 2023 • Jory Des Jardins

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July 2021

A History of the Underclass of the Internet: Women

We spend. We influence. We build companies. So why can't we show up online?

Jul 27, 2021 • Jory Des Jardins

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Living Deliberately

Micro-Quitting is a perfectly viable life strategy, at least until you can’t take it anymore. Just ask Rory Gilmore.

Jul 19, 2021 • Jory Des Jardins

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Working Off the Grid

Bridge jobs got us through the Pandemic. They've pulled me through my career.

Jul 6, 2021 • Jory Des Jardins

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June 2021

Moderation

'Work Hard, Rest Later' Was My Work Mantra. But My Personal Chemistry Changed.

Jun 21, 2021 • Jory Des Jardins

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Stories of tech, marketing, fairness, hormones

Welcome to PAUSE: Stories of tech, marketing, fairness, hormones by me, Jory Des Jardins.

Jun 15, 2021 • Jory Des Jardins

February 2018

Was it me?

Analyzing one of the most pervasive and disturbing forms of dysfunctional communication infecting business today — Professional Ghosting

Feb 2, 2018 • Jory Des Jardins

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