When I was in my early twenties, I moved to New York City after finishing my master's degree. No family nearby. No extended family. Just me, my backpack, and a deep homesickness that hit hardest at mealtimes. For months, I searched for good Mexican food. Real Mexican food. The kind that reminds ...

Every few weeks, someone in our FlipWork™ community, a friend, a colleague, or one of our AI reinvention sprint participants, asks me the same question. "Monica, which AI should I use?" And every time, I give the same answer: "Which person on your team is the best one?" They pause. Because the a...

My mother never followed a recipe. She cooked from memory, from feel, from years of standing at the stove learning what worked. Her comadres would come over, watch her cook, and ask: "How do you know when it's ready?" She would shrug and say, "You just know." But here is the part nobody saw. Beh...

  There is a saying in my family that my mother used when she had nothing but her own resourcefulness and still got it done: "Haciendo de tripas corazón." (Making heart out of guts. Turning nothing into something.) It is a deeply Mexican expression, but I have heard its spirit in every culture...

    ¡Próspero Año! (Prosperous New Year!) I hope 2026 is already treating you well, bringing health, clarity, and momentum. There's a saying in Spanish: "Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar"—Traveler, there is no road; you make your own path as you walk. This past year, Nikki and...

  I was sipping my cafecito, letting my morning skim agent sweep the news, analyst notes, and client pings, when two need-to-know bullets popped up back-to-back. First: Citi is training 175,000 employees on how to prompt. The article's key takeaway frames prompting as “the new Excel.” Translatio...