The heart of it
February 19, 2025
To be worthy of your time, work needs to have dignity, meaning, and impact.
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Apropos of everything
January 22, 2025
If we all show up with different ick, whose wins? How do we break ties?
What’s the opposite of mercenary?
December 11, 2024
There is no narrative arc more dystopian than insecure people with power and limited accountability.
I do not think it means what you think it means
November 27, 2024
Attaching the word performance to something doesn’t automatically make it a good idea.
True power lies elsewhere
November 13, 2024
A lot of stuff lives in the “about work and not about work at the same time” bucket. Turns out that organizing humans around complex tasks is messy.
This is not a democracy
October 30, 2024
There was a hard call to be made. And Jeff made it. That’s not abnormal. Jeff makes a lot of hard calls. He has trained his whole life for just this moment.
Nice, nice, very nice
October 16, 2024
The longer you’re in a culture of niceness and side-channels and things left unsaid, the more you have to wonder about the conversations happening out of earshot.
Lower your expectations
September 4, 2024
We have been to a lot of corporate all-hands, gatherings, conferences, and un-conferences. Some of them have been incredibly well-run. Some of them have been a rolling shit-show.
Okay, call it a come back
August 21, 2024
There is some design work to do if we want to build new connections, and rebuild the ones we miss.
What did they say when you told them?
August 7, 2024
You’re just reminding them that it’s a fair expectation that they would try to resolve it directly.
An immersive mismanagement experience
June 12, 2024
No one wants to work in an org that’s hopeless or doomed.
I don’t really have anything this week
May 29, 2024
There’s a difference between surviving and thriving.
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