The poser manifesto
April 16, 2025
We talk with people building amazing things all the time, from founders to interns, and none of them sound like this.
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The enshittification of work
April 2, 2025
The froth has subsided. And in its wake, organizations have found some truly short-sighted approaches to labour.
Where are the people-pleasers?
March 19, 2025
The biggest issue for people-pleasing leaders isn’t that they need to be tougher. Or scream more. Or play a different boss on TV.
Run it like a business
March 5, 2025
You should have just said “run it badly.”
The heart of it
February 19, 2025
To be worthy of your time, work needs to have dignity, meaning, and impact.
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.
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.
Was the Future of Work a ZIRP?
May 15, 2024
You can feel lucky to have a job and still want your work to have reasonable hours, pay equity, and the flexibility to deal with family matters on a Wednesday afternoon.
Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right
July 12, 2023
How do you know? How is it that you can listen to someone talk about work and consistently know what’s going to happen next?
My milkshake brings all the orgs to the yard
January 25, 2023
Someone else’s goals might be eloquently written, but that doesn’t mean they matter to you. Someone else’s values statement might seem so clear-eyed and attractive, but that doesn’t make it yours.
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