And What We Can Do About It — We, as humans, are bad at estimating. I remodeled our laundry room a little while ago. It was a project that I had on my list for a long time, so I was excited to get it done. …

How to Effectively Communicate and Work Together In classic Star Trek fashion (and Lower Decks is classic Star Trek), the Captain of the starship Cerritos accidentally touches a cursed ancient mask that then wreaks havoc on her ship, leading to weeks of cleanup, mainly from the engineering teams. …

A Lot, Actually — So How Can We Build Good Ones It may seem nostalgic or retro, but there was a time when we actually had to use roadmaps to get to places when driving. Especially when taking road trips. You’d have to unfold a massive map, find where you…

2022 Edition The holiday season is upon us once again (I know, I’m struggling to believe it too). But that means egg nog, sugar cookies, and giving gifts. You may find yourself looking for ideas for holiday gifts for those special people in your life. Or struggling with ideas for…

Taking an Idea from Abstract to Concrete — Ender’s Game is one of my favorite science fiction books, and the whole Enderverse series is a favorite of mine as well. Many of you are probably familiar with Ender’s Game, published in 1985 and a perennial classic of science fiction literature. …

Working Within The System vs. Changing The System — Often the system is the real problem. In a classic example of this, Dr. W. Edwards Deming created the Red Bead Experiment: To summarize the video above, there are several workers who randomly pull red and white beads from a bin using flat tool with holes in it that…

You Can Do It, Even If It Takes Some Work I cut my teeth in the finance world for many years. Interestingly (and unsurprisingly), most investors, especially professional investors, believe that they are above average when it comes to investing. Just like 75% of drivers consider themselves above average in…

Developing A Framework for Alignment and Decision Making Creating Your Product Principles Moving fast is difficult. Moving fast as teams grow is even more difficult. With a million decisions to make each day, how can you ensure everyone is making the right ones? …

How Leaders Are Owners No Matter What Years ago, I took over a product and a product development team. It was a high-profile product for our company. …