A historical collection of our writing.
Bethany CrystalSo, you landed an in-person job interview? Good for you! You’re one step closer to getting a foot in the door someplace new (and hopefully better) than where you are today. I’m sure you’ve already practiced and prepared a short list of micro case studies about yourself so you can speak to your […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)
Bethany CrystalThere’s been a bit of a movement to get back into writing lately. Between the responses from Anil Dash’s Tweet on how he’s been blogging for 20 years and Hunter Walk’s idea to kick off an all-virtual writing club in 2019, it seems that, as we shed elements of our digital addictions, some of us […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)
Bethany CrystalIt’s really fun to be the person sent in to stress test new systems. I get to do this a lot in the software / tech space, but rarely am I sent in as the guinea pig for “IRL” (in real life) stress tests. That’s why these next two weeks are so exciting. I’m spending […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)
Bethany CrystalIt was close to midnight. All the bars and bistros had just closed, leaving me alone on a dark, quiet street in the south of France with a major problem at hand: I hadn’t written down the keycode needed to re-enter my hotel. Being such a small town, the front desk receptionist had left at […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)
Bethany CrystalOver the weekend, I had brunch at a tiny NYC restaurant on the Upper West Side that’s always crammed for tables and space. In the summer, this restaurant accommodates outdoor sidewalk seating. But of course, in 30-degree weather, this no longer becomes possible. Like many restaurants, when the […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)
Bethany CrystalLast night we ate dinner at a restaurant where the kitchen and dish-washing stations were separated from the main dining room by a staircase. When I left our meal to head to the bathroom downstairs, a hurried water jostled past me with a very precariously stacked tray of dirty plates, cups, wine […] Read more (opens Medium in a new tab)
