You can classify products into two distinct buckets* by asking the following question: How do you feel when you don’t end up using…
My brother Paul died in March 2015, at the age of 37, from lung cancer — he was not a smoker. He was an amazing person: a neurosurgeon, scientist & writer, trained and loved at the world’s best educational and medical institutions. I gave a eulogy for him at Stanford Memorial Church…
A follow up thought to my last blog post, which suggested that entrepreneurs can be categorized as either artists or strategists:
What is the failure mode for each?
The artist’s company will fail because he finds a local maxima that is not maximal…
There are plenty of tasks out there that would be good to do, meetings that might be good to take — but these tasks may not really be Absolutely Necessary. That’s OK, you should still do them — just schedule them for Twonsday.
Loss aversion is dangerous, especially if you are in management. But I don’t mean loss aversion in terms of…
…is pretty simple. For the interested reader, I’ll talk mostly about design, the future, running a company and other (likely half-baked — it’s a blog, right?) observations, ruminations, and pontifications.
Last night my mother-in-law Mary L. babysat my two year old daughter Eve while my wife and I went out to dinner. What follows is a dialogue, written by Mary (known to Eve as “Mare Mare”), left on the kitchen…
If you could choose a new Latin name for our species, what would it be?
Our name is Homo Sapiens — which means the “thinking man,” or the “rational man.” Our species name says rationality is the thing that makes us unique.
