Laura Schuerwegen

STATS: 4 days, 11 applications It’s been four days since I took up the challenge of getting rejected 1000 times in a year. The goal I set is to apply to 3 things each day, which would give me ample opportunities to get to 1000 rejections. Since I have started doing this, I have come… Read more: 1000 Rejections – Early Reflections

I read this article a little while ago about this person who had set out to get rejected 1000 times, and ended up landing parts in plays etc. Now recently, life has felt a bit slow. Mostly because I am not in the stress of the festival creation and I do really really well in… Read more: 1000 rejections

Many years ago, a Ghanaian friend once told me, “We women need to always be doing something with our hands.” At the time, my younger feminist self bristled at the comment. It felt like a call back to domesticity, to the very limitations I wanted to escape. But twenty years later, I find myself thinking… Read more: The Power of Collective Creation

I’ve toyed with the idea of starting a Patreon for years.Friends and readers have suggested it, I’ve watched other creators build beautiful communities there—but something always held me back. Maybe it was the feeling that I had to perfect the concept first, or that asking for support meant I had to offer something grand and… Read more: Finding My Way to Patreon

For decades, leadership theory often glorified traits like coldness, detachment, and even psychopathy. Articles praised executives who could make “tough calls” without flinching, who were unaffected by the human impact of their decisions. But today, that model is outdated. Yes, leadership still comes with hard choices. But in an era where AI can handle repetitive… Read more: The Most Precious Capital is Human Capital