Nola Simon

The thing I am struggling with is just how much content there is about One Direction and each member. You have to filter a lot and be very disciplined with the focus and framing.

Someone asked me yesterday if my new niche was writing about One Direction lol. No, I’m still looking at leadership, strategy, the future of work. Just from a different angle because people are fascinated with celebrity and pop culture.

That means that the voices that have not been dominant have the opportunity to stand out. I mentioned this theory to a podcast guest once and she told me this scared her because standing out also meant being a target. She’s not wrong.

AI is reflecting the past. It’s been trained on the work that’s been published. The dominant voices have almost always been male, white, heterosexual and neurotypical.

Umm it was in the subdivision planning documents. I knew. I’ve known my husband for 30 years and he still doesn’t understand how long term my strategies are.

My daughter told me yesterday that my husband doesn’t realize that I bought our house in 1998 so that my unborn children would never have to take a bus to high school. He told her the high school wasn’t built until 2000 so it didn’t factor into our decisions.

Sometimes I wonder if academics read much pop culture. I just read an excellent article about practitioners of strategy in the age of AI. Excellent except for the acronym. PoS. Practitioners of strategy? Yes. But also…
piece of shit. Quite distracting.

Someone made this comment on my podcast guest episode of happier.grey and I kind of love it. Have you listened? podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/h...

Eipsode 51 - With Nola Simon Podcast Episode · Happier Grey Podcast · 2025-03-07 · 23m

Understanding the story of my hair helps you understand my different approach to belonging, the status quo and my instinct to stand out rather than fit in. It’s not simply hair but identity.

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Dr. Julie Gurner on Substack One of the most dangerous distractions for highly capable people isn't social media... It's seeing possibility everywhere & being unable to limit your bets. When you see possibility everywhere - y...

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Great leaders don’t fear remote work—they fear the absence of trust, clarity, and accountability. The problem isn’t where people work, it’s how we lead them.

I’ve been contemplating writing about boy bands, fandom and mental health since Liam Payne died.

Chappell Roan convinced me to do it with her Grammy speech. She put the award on the floor, behind her, because advocacy is more important than a trophy.

Yep I can see that. Context matters.

Yes, it’s really disappointing because credit could easily have been attributed without diminishing the presentation of the personal examples. And yes, it’s so simplistic that it’s application in life or death situations would be unwise.

A toxic culture in the office will stay toxic remotely. Changing the location won’t change the outcome—only leadership will.

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Hope & Possibilities: A Love Letter to The Future of Work Instead of a word for the year, I've decided 2025 is going to be the year of questions. When there is so much change and uncertainty, no one has answers but many people will try to convince you they d...

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I’m ok if it has a transcript option so you can choose whether to watch the video or not. It’s also how it plays into long term knowledge management. Can AI leverage video as well as it can written communication?