The Stories We Tell Ourselves About Work

I found out on the morning of March 31, at the same time as 30,000 of my fellow Oracle colleagues.

I’d gone to the gym in the morning. It was my last day of PTO. I’d taken the previous week off and the first two days of the next week off to work on the launch of my memoir, The Luck We Carry: Love, Loss, and the Stories that Shape Us. It’s a memoir I’d be…