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Paul Adams

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Paul Adams

How I try to organise my life to make me happy

I’ve Matthew McConaughey to thank for this. More on that in a bit.

Dec 29, 2018

How I try to organise my life to make me happy

Dec 29, 2018

Paul Adams

Please apply

A lot of people are surprised when I tell them that I had imposter syndrome at Intercom. I’d spent the last 7 years at Google and Facebook…

Dec 20, 2017

Dec 20, 2017

Paul Adams

On hiring the best

Any seasoned design leader will tell you that the best designers don’t have online portfolios. They aren’t busy designing their portfolio…

Feb 13, 2017

Feb 13, 2017

Paul Adams

To perform at your best, focus on Goals not Tasks

I am a big believer in setting goals. Throughout my career I’ve learned that when I set myself goals and stick to them, my performance…

Jan 8, 2017

Jan 8, 2017

Paul Adams

Getting Energy

This is a half baked post about feeling energetic or feeling tired. What I hope to get to is a list of things that give me energy, and a…

Sep 18, 2016

Sep 18, 2016

Paul Adams

When big meetings are better

In the early days of Intercom we obsessed about how many people were in meetings and constantly optimised for efficiency, trying to make…

Aug 10, 2016

Aug 10, 2016

Paul Adams

Why is Google bad at real time information?

It’s amazing and perplexing to me how Google still hasn’t figured out real time search. I’m sure these are hard problems, I’m not hating…

Aug 8, 2016

Why is Google bad at real time information?

Aug 8, 2016

Paul Adams

Why working x hours a week is nonsense

I just read this article claiming that Marissa Mayer said that working 130 hours a week is what made Google successful in the early days…

Aug 6, 2016

Aug 6, 2016

Paul Adams

None of this matters when you’re dead

Or why I don’t care that my decade worth of blog content has been lost.

Nov 27, 2015

Nov 27, 2015

Paul Adams

Elon Musk, Onions, and The 5 Why’s

The final piece in an amazing, highly recommended 4 part series about Elon Musk was just published on Waitbutwhy. It talks a lot about…

Nov 10, 2015

Nov 10, 2015

Paul Adams

Paul Adams

12.9K Followers

VP of Product @Intercom. Before that PM, UX, Design at Facebook, Google, Dyson. I like building things with others. Wrote a book http://amzn.com/0321804112

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