HELLO, SPRING
The morning we sent this issue to print, I woke up to the news that the Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison had passed away overnight. The tributes flowed over social media, but a post from The New Yorker hit like a ton of bricks. They had shared highlights from a piece Toni had written in 2017, reflecting on the lessons her father had taught her about work, and it read: 1. Whatever the work is, do it well – not for the boss but for yourself. 2. You make the job; it doesn’t make you. 3. Your real life is with us, your family. 4. You are not the work you do; you are the person you are. Having been working on this edition – “the success issue” – it seemed appropriate to read something…