The Helm

Confession: Since college, I’ve been keeping a list.

I can’t seem to function when I don’t know how my team is functioning.

I broke my collarbone a few weeks back. Trying to get a little exercise in the great outdoors, I wound up spending the afternoon in the ER…

I started a company determined not to be “that boss.” I wanted to work with people I actually knew and cared about, and wanted them to be…

The blinking cursor stares you down from the monitor. Your goal to make headway by afternoon is slipping out of reach. In the office, you…

The concept of second-order effects isn’t new or hard to understand. Every event has consequences. Second-order effects are the…

What started as one person’s idea turned into a global social movement three months later, supported by United Nations.

On a recent morning, I had breakfast with 12 of our newest hires. But don’t worry — we kept our social distance.

Remember when this was supposed to last two weeks?

The Internet is filled with different quotes and phrases that define an “entrepreneur”, but there are really few who truly understand the…

The word entrepreneur may evoke images of titans like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. But the business founders changing the game in…

In The Great Mental Models Vol. 1 (public library), Shane Parrish and Rhiannon Beaubien give us an introduction to mental models and their…