leadership
The Chaos of Tribal Knowledge and Ambiguous Authority Small organizations often run off of "tribal knowledge." Everyone just knows how things are done because they sit in the same room (or Slack channel) and figure it out on the fly. There's a classic approach of "
The Trap Business leaders are currently navigating a storm of AI headlines. The pressure to transform, to automate before being left behind, is immense. I see this in the companies I support as a board member and advisor. They feel the FOMO, but they struggle to make wise bets in
leadership
I recently listed to a great podcast interview about Alpha School, on the Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy podcast, which is a new education model focused on using AI to personalize education to each student. It was recommended by a friend of mine, and was a
miscellaneous
In past years, I've done personal and professional strategic planning and goal setting with a focus on goals first at a high level based around desires like Connection (Relationship), Purpose, Impact, and Service, and created goals under those headers. This year, instead, I reflected on what I wanted
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
When I try to explain how to play Carcassonne to friends who haven't played before, or when I play and it's been a while, I'm always frustrated that the game (which is great) doesn't include a simple scoring summary, and instead I
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Several years ago, I had as great mentor who recommended the book The Goal, by Eliyahu Goldratt (also available as a graphic novel these days). I was chatting with someone recently about their team struggling, because their product team wasn't refining and prioritizing the backlog fast enough to
leadership
This 9.5-minute Harvard Business Review video is incredible. So many people use the word "strategy" poorly, and Roger Martin does a great job in this video explaining that strategy is not when senior leaders make a list of the projects they want to work on. Instead, strategy
lessons-learned
Several months back, we wanted to get a corded landline for our kids to be able to call grandparents, aunts, and uncles; and as they get older, call us if they're not quite old enough for a cell phone and we're out and about. It'
leadership
I've been recently enjoying several episodes from IDEO's Creative Confidence Podcast, including an interview with Bob Sutton regarding this research and book "The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder". Some highlights from that episode: * Bob
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George Mack wrote an incredible, inspiring, convicting, amazing webpage long-form article High Agency in 30 Minutes in April of 2025. Here's what I wrote about it back then. A few weeks ago he posted this great follow-up 9 fun ways to increase your agency with zero grinding required
productivity
I recently started using the snipd podcast app, and it offers a few compelling features (along with solid queue/backlog management, which is a must-have for me). It offers: * AI transcription of podcasts, so you can easily copy and paste quotes from podcasts * Allows you so "snip" moments
lessons-learned
I recently listened to this great Creator Science podcast interview of author Daniel Pink about how to write like a NY Times bestselling author. One great point Dan makes in the interview is being intentional with which parts of your life you should be maximizing/optimizing, and which parts you