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I get asked a lot of questions.

At a certain scale, most companies begin managing through dashboards.

I’ve been quietly hearing many well-intentioned men say they feel unfairly stereotyped as sexual harassers and abusers. “It’s a manhunt,”.…

Smart young people (GPSGs) approach me for career advice a lot. They’re looking for something that can’t be found: a “path” to the career…

This is a story about how to iterate your company’s high-level positioning to inspire customers and prospects as your company grows. I also…

Failure has been romanticized in the tech world but the psychology of making mistakes in public has not. Looking stupid helps teams win …

My last post about how to be an effective early-stage employee got a big response. Managers responded with questions. They wanted to know…

I’ve seen and experienced how bad internships demoralize people. I met Amar Varma during an internship when we were attending the…

“Alone we’re ok, but together we’re a genius.”

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an…

Engagement is a fancy word for getting people to give a 💩. When people give a 💩 it triggers discretionary effort. Teams become proactive.

Why are open offices, which are used by 70% of workplaces worldwide, suddenly under siege? Most argue that it’s about silencing the din…

A couple of years ago I gave a talk in Halifax at Startup Empire called Killing It with Vision. Even though it’s been years, people still…

What makes you happy in life? Do you think buying a new thing makes you happy?

The moment you have to decide between several options marks the point where you are the least informed you’ll ever be. It’s not until after

There’s a long, drawn-out engagement crisis underway. It’s been happening for decades & costing America hundreds of billions of dollars…

Technical conversations are hard: a few loud people drone on, consensus is rarely reached, layers of paint are added to empty bike sheds.

People endlessly compare business to sports or war. These analogies have never really resonated for me. I’m not much of an athlete. And…