The One Week Rule

I remember being on the Google Hangout with Craig Bryant, our CEO, when he began “talking out loud” his new vision for the company. It wasn’t as clear as it is now, but it was obvious we were taking a dramatic shift. The shift was one we had been thinking about for a while, but had never fully…

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Customer feedback isn’t enough

My family and I just got back from a trip to Disney World. I spent five days there with my husband and…

What’s your weekly work pyramid?

Since the 1970s, the proper balance of nutrition for a healthy, balanced diet has usually been…

A maker’s approach to managing projects

On the spectrum of what Paul Graham would call makers versus managers, I’m as far to the…

Finding big passions in small things

If you love your work, what do you love about it? If you haven’t found work you love, what’s kept you from finding it?

I ask these questions because it dawned on me recently that the roots of my interest in programming boil down to just a…

Being brief

As far back as I can remember, I’ve noticed a strange dichotomy when it comes to brevity. We usually fear being brief, yet we find brevity curiously refreshing when we receive it.

Think back to the last time you were in a two-hour meeting that ran thirty minutes short. The last…

Shining the spotlight on stage crew software

If you write code for a living, you’ve probably dreamt of building the next great SaaS app. What makes it the next great thing? A product with ten million users is surely successful. One with ten million in profit is even better. Most of the glory in…

Sometimes, it’s life-work balance

When we talk about work-life balance, we assume that it’s the work we’re trying to balance out with life. When work-life balance is off kilter, work’s usually the offender trying its best to get too close to life’s personal space. Sometimes, however, that’s not always…