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Unbreaking the leadership practices that prevent work from being impactful and human
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Our interview practices are still filtering out innovative candidates
Knowledge workers don't all excel in the same ways. It's time to update our approach.
Jul 94 min read
Advancement expands the opportunity to help others. That is its reward.
Our pets have something to tell us: power is meant to be spent, not preserved.
Jul 25 min read
Do this now, f*ck the rest of it
How a gag gift revealed that what you don't do is the key to doing everything else well.
Jun 254 min read
Apple's native apps are missing something obvious. So is your product roadmap.
Why is it that it took eleven years for the best-funded technology company in the world to allow an iMessage to be marked unread?
Jun 164 min read
What a Holocaust survivor, a jazz musician, and the Wright Brothers can teach us about motivation
Purpose isn't a byproduct of success. It's a precondition for it.
Nov 24, 20254 min read
The Stoic and Buddhist approach to building executive presence
Impediments aren't a distraction in your career; they are the way.
Nov 19, 20256 min read
What the best communicators understand about their audience
Most people treat communication as a performance, but the most effective communicators treat it as a way to reduce their audience's cognitive load.
Nov 18, 20256 min read
AI is accelerating a management mistake we've made before
The rise of specialized software roles for AI agents follows a logic that dates to the Industrial Revolution and the fall of American manufacturing prominence in the 20th century. When organizations optimize top-down for measurable outcomes, they systematically erode the ground-level judgment, craft, and cross-functional thinking that complex systems actually run on. Medicine learned this the hard way with Electronic Medical Records. Now, knowledge work is repeating the patte
Nov 14, 20255 min read
Your team is losing hours every day to how they communicate
There's a quiet drain to reputation in your everyday habits. To reclaim your team's time, you must address norms.
Nov 11, 20253 min read
Einstein, Bourdain, and Mike Tyson never managed a product. Their wisdom applies anyway.
Meaningful impact requires the unreasonable conviction to push for systemic change over local optimizations.
Aug 8, 20256 min read
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