Started my journalism career with United Press International in Rhode Island, then moved on to various newspapers around the country as a staff reporter. Received a fellowship for journalists to study for a year at Yale Law School, culminating in a Master of Studies in Law. Worked as a correspondent in London writing about U.K. universities for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Wrote the award-winning biweekly column “Shortcuts” for the New York Times from 2005 to 2015. Wrote  Better by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong. (Riverhead, 2011) and  contributed a chapter to Mistakes I Made at Work: 25 Influential Women Reflect on What They Got Out of Getting It Wrong.