💡 Building Engineering (and more)
Building Engineering This is a really great post by Ben Werdmuller. On the surface it’s about Building Engineering, but it’s mostly about good leadership and...
💡 Can AI therapists do better than the real thing? (and more)
Can AI therapists do better than the real thing? My wife is a therapist, so the story Can AI therapists do better than the real thing? (oh hello,...
💡 On kindness and decisiveness (and more)
On kindness and decisiveness Mike Fisher reminds us how important it is for leaders to be excellent listeners in Listen or Speak. This part particularly...
💡 Explorations On Leadership (and more)
Explorations On Leadership Big +1 from me on James Whatley’s thoughts on leadership in the latest edition of his Five things on a Friday newsletter:...
💡 How Asana and Slack’s meeting purges have paid off (and more)
How Asana and Slack’s meeting purges have paid off The importance of async work and cutting down on meetings to allow for more Deep Work time won’t be new to...
💡 Organizational health is (still) the key to long-term performance, and more
Organizational health is (still) the key to long-term performance This is an excellent read from McKinsey. It turns out that, unsurprisingly, organizational...
💡 Say the quiet part out loud: simplifying communication in high context environments, and more
Say the quiet part out loud: simplifying communication in high context environments The Culture Map by Erin Meyer is a great book about how to improve...
💡 No running in airports, and more
No running in airports Every time I travel, just before I leave the house, I do a weird thing. I stop at the front door of our house, look myself in the...
💡 South African sunsets, fixing systems not people, and Sales is your friend
Hello friends, and Happy New Year! We are back from our long trip to South Africa (see below for some sunset photos), and re-entry has been—as you might...
💡 Feature/Product fit, how to ship fast, and a great communication framework for leaders
Hi friends, This is probably the last time you'll hear from me this year. On Wednesday we are flying to South Africa for our first family trip back "home"...
💡 Sales-first storytelling, Zoom fatigue, and replacing product managers
Hello friends 👋 I'm going to be traveling this week so I'm sending the email roundup slightly earlier than usual. I also wanted to mention (for my fellow...
💡 You are probably not one feature away from success
Hello friends 👋 Well, this is neat. I used the long weekend to finally switch my RSS-to-Email platform from Mailchimp to Buttondown, and I'm so happy I...
