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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 suitcases. Sometimes we make good decisions, and sometimes we screw up. These outcomes go into our suitcases, too. When we share this hard-earned wisdom, instead… Read more ⇢
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Climate reading list
Here’s what I’ve been reading on climate. Please comment if you have suggestions. Changelog 2023-03-31 First version, covers fall 2022 to now. Books The Big Fix: Seven Practical Steps to Save Our Planet (2022) Hal Harvey and Justin Gillis Heard on the Volts podcast. This book is all about leverage. Working to change your local… Read more ⇢
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Earth
Written during a Lighthouse workshop in 2017. Mona and I grew up together in a field outside of Fresno. She was in my row. We first noticed each other in late January or early February, and we hit it off. She used to call me the ‘tall orange one’, which was funny because it was… Read more ⇢
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Haste is your weakest lever
Or, how to really help your team go faster. Speed matters in product teams. Unfortunately, there is no gas pedal. Just saying “go faster” is lazy and shows that you lack curiosity. You need to understand why there’s a mismatch between expectations and reality. When you say “go faster,” your team hears “you’re lazy,” and… Read more ⇢
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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 many countries. In March and April 2020, many knowledge workers were suddenly thrust into a new way of working. For some, this meant having to… Read more ⇢
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