Category: Better work

  • The strength of “I don’t know”

    I had a professor in grad school who sometimes threw erasers at students. Paul Halmos was from that generation of reluctant Hungarian emigres who made big contributions to science and computing in the…

    The strength of “I don’t know”
  • Suitcase handles

    In life and work, we learn things. We fill suitcases with our learnings. Technical learnings, business and leadership learnings, and heuristics for making decisions. All of these go into our…

    Suitcase handles
  • Haste is your weakest lever

    Or, how to really help your team go faster. Speed matters in shipping products. Unfortunately, there is no single gas pedal labeled “speed to market.” Just saying “go faster” to…

    Haste is your weakest lever
  • The distributed opportunity

    A new reality After a surge of optimism about re-opening the world and all of its offices, we’re now in uncertain times again with fourth waves of Covid-19 raging in…

  • Hiring better: Assessing communication

    Lessons from hiring for the Data team at Bevy. One of our core values is “communicate like a legend,” and it’s about communicating with respect, candor, clarity, courage, and empathy. We…