Southpaw’s 2021 in Review
What a year it’s been! Here are a few highlights from the Southpaw Insights team…
Superpowers of the Generalist
I got my PhD in a super-specific line of study, but now I actually prefer being a super-generalist. Don’t get me wrong; going deep academically is a beautiful thing, but it can be limiting. Matt Might, a professor of Internal Medicine and Computer Science at the University of Alabama described the specialist’s dilemma beautifully in “The […]
What I Learned Outside the Classroom — Lessons from the Court, Field and River
Fun fact: I was a student athlete for most of my younger years, with a lot more emphasis on “athlete” than “student.” Sports profoundly shaped who I am. As a kid, successfully juggling practice, classes, games, matches, homework and meets is a surefire way to develop personal responsibility and time management skills, but I also learned […]
We’re Back On Our Feet. What Do You Need?
The feds just rolled out their second round of PPP funding for small businesses, and filing our application sent me back to a dark place: last spring, when 90% of Southpaw’s work dried up overnight, and nobody knew what the future would look like. Frankly, I was freaking out a little. But to keep my […]
Southpaw’s 2020 in Review
What a year it’s been! Here are a few highlights from the Southpaw Insights team… (Click on image for larger view).
Summer Round-up
How is it the middle of September already?!? Summer is my favorite season and, as usual, it flew by in a whirlwind of sunshine and blueberries. Team Southpaw had a busy summer: Sidney got married (that’s her with her new husband Adam on their wedding day), Jordan and Julia did some socially-distanced traveling, and Kathy’s […]
Words of Pandemic Wisdom from the Southpaw Moms
It’s been a rough year for parents. We’ve done the research, and we’ve seen the data. The pandemic has taken more of a toll on parents than those without kids. Mother’s Day is Sunday, and I’m heading south to shower my mom with love. (That’s her and my dad in 1966, before I was even a […]
Collaborating to Grow
Working with someone else can take you to the next level-whether it’s using a different reporting style, learning new techniques and method-ologies, or just taking on bigger projects than you could on your own. (We’ve all had those clients who want eighty IDIs in a month.)
An Ode to Amazing Women
My great-grandmother Mollye was left-handed like me. Her sister Maude ran away to join the circus, but Mollye worked as a domestic, cleaning houses for wealthy families, and later in a munitions factory in St. Louis. Mollye’s daughter, Alice, was born in 1912, eight years before women could vote. Alice moved across the country with […]
My Data Driven Approach to New Year’s Resolutions
Every December, I love to do a year-end assessment of my life and plan for the new year ahead. In the past, that’s meant looking at some metrics and reflecting on how I feel. If I hit a certain number in revenue — “it was a good year” — keep going. If I was feeling exhausted — “it was a busy […]