A few years back, Jay told me to stop shitting on his ideas. Not in an email, not in Slack, just straight to my face, after one too many meetings where he pitched something he was excited about and I started poking holes in it before he had even ...
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I picked up Scott Galloway's The Algebra of Wealth expecting the usual bruising honesty he's known for, the kind of book that tells you things about money and ambition you'd rather not hear (or wish you had decades ago). And it delivered. What stuck ...
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I was watching a teammate work through a client problem over Slack the other day. They were close. You could feel it in the way the messages came in, a little slower, a little more tentative, the answer basically forming in real time. And there I ...
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Nobody in their right mind invites Jocko Willink to sit in on a quarterly planning meeting. That's like asking a drill sergeant to supervise your morning workout. Sure, you'll come out stronger. You'll also hate every minute of it.
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A few weeks into living in France, I stopped posting in our company Slack. Not because anything went wrong. Not because anyone said anything. I'd take a photo at a market or lift a glass of something good at dinner, and I'd feel this quiet shift. ...
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