Everyone’s talking about it, but no one’s doing it.

For the past five years, I’ve been helping engineering managers become better leaders, one at a time.

Thus far, I’ve adopted mostly a B2C approach: I sell leadership development products and services to managers who…

Mental Model Machinations

Over the past two weeks, two ideas have been bouncing around in my brain. They have now smashed into each other, producing a couple of emails.

Today’s email is about the first idea, which is from fourth-wave systems thinking. It’s the idea of “mental…

It works, but you’re gonna look silly doing it

Friday I sent you a fun puzzle to consider. It was an encoded message that began:

Toothy purse in respond civil force ending theme honey:

Can you help me decipher this riddle?

A bit of #FridayFun for you, taking a break from the seriousness of life.

My friend Nathanial sent me this today and challenged me to translate this text into comprehensible English.

Let’s play “name that bias”

My sister has twin 4-year old kids, a boy, and a girl. Both have autism and are on different points of the ASD spectrum.

I was having lunch with them on Sunday, for Fathers Day, and I noticed something interesting.

”Nah” — Rosa Parks

”Nah”

I shuffle when I walk, which means I kinda drag my feet on the ground. This results in ’scuffing’ along, as my father put it.

You can think of this shuffling as a system that’s balanced when my action (shuffling feet) is met with a…