professional development – Attractions Journey

Networking is a Performance and I’m a Bad Actor: A Guide for Introverts

By Andrea Marshall
25/03/2026

I was at this massive tech mixer in Austin back in 2018—I think it was during SXSW, but the whole week is a blur of bad tacos and humidity—and I spent exactly forty-seven minutes locked in a bathroom stall at the Hilton. I wasn’t sick. I was just hiding. I could hear the muffled roar…

By Andrea Marshall
21/03/2026

Your Home Office is a Career Cul-de-Sac and We Need to Stop Pretending Otherwise

I didn’t get the promotion because I wasn’t there to smell the coffee. That sounds like a joke, or some weird boomer advice about ‘firm handshakes,’ but I’m dead serious. In 2022, I was working for a mid-sized tech firm—let’s call them CloudPulse—and I was crushing every single one of my KPIs. My output was…