“Because being CEO can feel lonely, I journal religiously as a way to express my thoughts, feelings and aspirations. Looking back at earlier entries helps me reflect on challenges and celebrate progress and successes.”

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This reads as an honest account of loneliness at the top, and of journaling as a private place to sort experience into meaning. It can be taken to mean that leadership benefits from reflection, because writing helps track both strain and progress. It lands for anyone carrying responsibility alone, especially when they need to notice how far they have come as well as what is still hard.

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About Rana el Kaliouby

Egyptian-American computer scientist

Rana el Kaliouby is an Egyptian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder and chief executive of Affectiva, the emotion AI company she started with Rosalind Picard. Her work centers on computers that can recognize and respond to human emotion. As the public face of Affectiva, she has helped shape the conversation around artificial intelligence, affective computing, and how technology interprets facial expressions and other signals of feeling.

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