Ask a parent how their kid is doing and you get an answer, not a guess. Ask a manager about the person ten feet away, same confidence. Nobody is lying. Everyone is answering from what they were shown, and somebody decided what that would be. Chris Coulter on why the people closest to you tell you least, what we measure instead, and the question worth sitting with.

There have been 579 Monday mornings since April 11, 2015. Maybe 50 I have actually looked forward to. All of them in the last year. For parents carrying something heavy and not sure where to go with it.