A Learning a Day

With the people we play long-term games with - family, close friends, anyone we're in it with for the long haul - one thing is easy to forget: some days, our energies simply won't match. You could call these moods, but moods feel more momentary. Energy fe

"You must never give in to despair. Allow yourself to slip down that road and you surrender to your lowest instincts. In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength." Uncle Iroh, Avatar: The Last Airbender

One of the harder truths to internalize is that there's very little correlation between a problem being difficult and a problem being valuable. It is easy to fall into the trap of assuming the two travel together. If something is taking all our effort and

Before you go on a grueling ten-mile hike, try a three-miler. Before you run a marathon, it helps to have a few ten-mile runs in your legs. Before you ship a risky change, ship something smaller and safer first. And before you transfer a massive amount of

#OurWorldIsAwesome - Edition 24 Context on this series - we live in a beautiful world and National Parks are akin to the crown jewels of this planet. These landscapes remind us of the fine balance and complexity woven into the fabric of the world around u

I wrote about hiking yesterday and mentioned "switchbacks." On a steep hike, the trail almost never goes straight up. It zigzags - long diagonal legs cutting back and forth across the slope, taking you what feels like sideways when all you want is up. The

A teammate shared a lesson this week that a former CEO used to talk about: don't pave the cow path. It's a beautiful warning against taking an inefficient, accidental process and simply…

I recently started building products focused on healthcare affordability in the US. As I was ramping up on a new space, the biggest question that sparked my curiosity was: how did we get here?…

I'm a heavy user of voice-to-text. It's a key part of my workflow, and it improves my productivity - but only about sixty percent of the time. Lower than I expected when I first started…

Back in my management consulting days, one of the first things we'd do with a new client was map out the org chart - who the players were, who the decision-makers were, how the place was wire…