This week, at work, we crossed a milestone, a couple years in the making. To me this was a company ‘rite of passage’. This got me thinking about the celebration of rites of passage. I have never been good at celebrating, personally I missed my grad...
regarding a post by Steve Bartlett: Steve's original Linkedin post Obedience & Conformity, is probably not that useful on the playground either. These attributes I not only want taught but I want around me at school, work or the playground. How to pos...
This is 日 _no_ this is 日 To me both symbols are the same. But in Chinese, the character is not just how it looks. How it is drawn, order/direction of each stroke is as important as the final outcome. Stroke order optimizes on the principles of efficie...
The secret. I came across this slide I did for a deck in 2013. This formula is as true now as it was then, and one could argue the companies that did this right, were able to survive and maybe even thrive during the pandemic. Original Linkedin Link:...
The problem with Principal engineers Is that they have Principles Routinely manage or hang out with senior engineers? This may make you chuckle. In many companies the apex of an individual contributor engineer is Principal (sometimes there is anothe...
The problem with innovation? You often don't see direct results. Remembering back to our physics classes, Potential energy is like this rock. There is energy stored there. But you have to figure out how to get it out. Most corporate innovation is pot...
2004, for months two hours of every workday were interviews. Conversations would go broad and deep; talking about tech but also straying to philosophy, art, etc. Maybe in the office, often on a stroll. I'd share our mission, the opportunities to improv...
Knowing that this meant, "working hard", I never looked deeply into the meaning of the phrase. The other day, just surfing out of the blue I came across these pictures. Their noses are literally _to_ the grindstone. These are the master of knives, le...
one can seek to control to try to reduce risk. I have found control is an illusion a fools errand one can seek to train their response to create the best outcome Here there are many approaches: game out scenarios weigh the costs attempt to ...
A quote a friend sent me, that is going in my files to read often: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Wh...