Learn to Read Weak Signals

An exercise I love to do in my talks recently, is to show folks the following chart:

What I Learned From Interviewing Steve Wozniak

Yesterday I had the insane pleasure and distinct honor to interview Apple cofounder and Silicon Valley legend Steve Wozniak for a full hour on the stage of The Entrepreneurs Organization’s annual Global Leader Conference in Macau.

What Is My Job on This Planet?

For a little while now I have the great privilege of giving the closing keynote at Singularity University’s Executive Program. Toward the end of my remarks, I present the audience with a set of questions, all geared toward focussing attention inward and finding an answer to…

A Formula for Guaranteed Success

Legend has it that J.P. Morgan, the uber-successful bank, once was offered a sealed envelope containing “a formula for guaranteed success.” The person who developed the formula was so confident about its impact that he provided the envelope to J.P., asking for payment of…

Do Everything With Purpose

I am a procrastinator. Not for everything, but for some. I also have mild OCD — which makes me sort the documents on my laptop into the “right” folders, rename the files, so that they are uniform, and generally try to keep everything nice and tidy.

Own Your Stuff

We all make mistakes. Of course, we do. And the more we do, the more mistakes we will make. It just comes with the territory.

I believe this is just fine as long as you own your stuff and make it right once you realize your mistake.

The Competitive Advantage of “No BS.”

If you know me, you know that I have a strong passion for ridding the world (well, at least my world) of all the bullshit we endure day in, day out. From all the hyperbole in too many startup and sales pitches, to lazily repeated claims and alleged “facts”…