You can be wrong, even on your birthday
September 2, 2026
These are magic beans, not thought leadership.
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First draw two circles
July 8, 2026
What’s funny is that there was no need to be this wrong.
The wrong tool for the job
June 10, 2026
More difficult. Messier. Slower. These are not selling points.
The people who care are having the hardest time
April 29, 2026
That this passes for visionary leadership and is rewarded by the market is the surest sign we’re into some totally upside-down-face corporate groupthink.
You are not entirely powerless
February 4, 2026
How do you check power that’s not-presently-checked?
Somebody has to do it
January 7, 2026
We hear this from individual contributors, and we hear it from team leads and line managers, and we hear it from Directors and VPs, too.
Don’t let the Doerr hit you on the way out
October 29, 2025
The real test for an org is not whether you ever bet wrong. The question is, when the results start to come in, what do you do now?
The price of admission
October 15, 2025
It’s hard to push decision-making to the edges if we’re not sure how the edges are making decisions.
You’re probably not that hardcore
October 1, 2025
You can drop a lot of frogs in that pot and very few will feel their feet get warm.
I hope they’re paying you enough for this
August 20, 2025
The shift in this model is that we’re no longer talking about a cofounder or a bestie or work spouse.
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.
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