Bethany Crystal
Coffee Chat: How do you start a community?
How do you start a community? Wow, is that's a loaded and complicated question. While it's true that my job today is literally build upon...
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I write about community, the future of work, and leadership. Below are some of my favorite pieces I've researched recently. You can also subscribe to my blog.
A three-party series on why fractional work is the foundation for the next era of knowledge workers -- and how to decouple the 9-5 job.
As a web3 founder, what do you need to know about integrating community into your project? A profile of 12 crypto-native networks.
So you landed a final job interview. How to make sure you don't blow your big moment with bad questions.
With so many venture firms implementing strategies to build out their portfolio communities, the only question is - does it work?
Bethany Crystal
- Apr 26, 2019
- 6 min
Female Friend(shifts): What happens when all your friends have babies
The fear of losing out (on friends)About six months ago, I got pretty depressed that all of my friends were either pregnant or had...
Bethany Crystal
- Apr 16, 2019
- 11 min
My Brief History with Notre-Dame in Paris
Lost luggage(June, 1999) “Je ne trovvve pas ma valise,” I smiled at my brother as I recited the line. He immediately erupted in a fit of...
Bethany Crystal
- Apr 9, 2019
- 2 min
Confessions from a Former Fact-Checker
Does a half-day golfing count as an out-of-office day? If the President interacted with another national leader on the golf course, was...
Bethany Crystal
- Apr 5, 2019
- 3 min
Eight Years in NYC
Getting by in the big city You're probably thinking -- I thought this was a story about the Strand Bookstore. And it is, don't worry....
Bethany Crystal
- Apr 1, 2019
- 3 min
A Modest Proposal: 10 Ways to Incentivize New Yorker to Give Up their Plastic Bags
banning all plastic bags from being distributed in our city, I panicked. Then I counted my stockpile. I have exactly 25 plastic bags at...
Bethany Crystal
- Mar 29, 2019
- 5 min
How to [Unexpectedly] Frame Your Day
An adaptive social experiment I started off lugging my frame around much like you might maneuver a suitcase through Manhattan --...
Bethany Crystal
- Mar 21, 2019
- 2 min
Wearing your hero's name on your nametag
Women like Ada Lovelacee, Madeleine Albright, or Ann Freud, who were trailblazers at being "first" in their domain, paving the path...
Bethany Crystal
- Mar 19, 2019
- 4 min
Dangerous Liaisons: The Fallacy of the Modern-Day Coffee
Whoa! Talk about forward! Am I a terrible person if I say no? Damn it, I’ve already let her guilt me into saying yes. Hang on -- do I...
Bethany Crystal
- Mar 11, 2019
- 4 min
Take back the night: Are we retreating away from tech to smaller social circles?
A seven-person "Death Over Dinner" discussion group (complete with pre-requisite reading assignments and a discussion list) A cell-phone...
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- Mar 7, 2019
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Bethany Crystal
- Feb 26, 2019
- 2 min
Honoring the work of departing employees
How you say goodbye Transitions are impossibly hard. Senior level role transitions, even more so. But they happen all the time. In an...
Bethany Crystal
- Feb 13, 2019
- 5 min
Nobody likes you
Nobody texted me back. I checked back to my initial texts: One sent at 11:40 a.m. The next sent at 12:59 p.m. The third at 1:41 p.m. The...
Bethany Crystal
- Feb 11, 2019
- 4 min
The "business book" version of Harry Potter
The business book anecdote Stop me if you've heard this one: So there's a guy running a company who stepped into a crazy bad situation at...
Bethany Crystal
- Feb 9, 2019
- 5 min
Boardroom Confidence: Nature, Nurture, or Does it Matter?
"When investigating what deters professional advancement for women, the journalists Katty Kay and Claire Shipman found that a shortage of...
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- Feb 5, 2019
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- Feb 4, 2019
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Bethany Crystal
- Jan 28, 2019
- 1 min
When your dress rehearsal becomes the real thing
What's it like to look at a work in progress before it was really ready for prime time? How much did the actors "go for it" in rehearsal...
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