Exercise Your Power of Saying No
6 min readFeb 1, 2021
I remember the day I powered up my laptop at my first corporate job in 2008. Its ominous hum a siren to be productive-at-all-costs seemed appropriate. With eyes fresh off the pages of overpriced college textbooks and firmly fixed on a corporate pixelated spreadsheet-laden screen, after a year into the gig, I’d soon learn the adjustment to this life would strain more than my eyesight.