And what it’s costing you. In 2001, I sailed across the Pacific Ocean on a 37-foot sailboat named Madeline. The longest stretch without touching land was 28 days. There were flat calms and nights where the wind howled and the boat heeled hard into swells you couldn’t see coming. Moments of unimaginable beauty mixed with […]

At my first job out of college, I built a book inventory database. An older colleague — the kind of woman who thought she was always right — was frustrated it didn’t match her paper records and wanted to know what I’d broken. “A computer can never be wrong,” she told me. I said, “It