Doing great work is hard. It’s especially hard if you’re one person. I learned recently that ‘teams’ as a concept only became a thing in the 90s (and no, not that Teams. But the answer, if I haven’t already spoiled it, is teams. I’m sure you didn’t see that coming. …

Before — One Sunday after missing my Cowboys beat up on their rival Eagles, I was up late burning the last of my midnight oil. With each passing moment my resolve weakened and my error rate increased. Mistakes happen, and it sucks to make mistakes. …

How to Make Social Media Less Toxic — Part I: How We Got Here No matter who owns Twitter, whether Instagram’s timeline is algorithmic or sequenced, and regardless of whether TikTok is the future, you have control over what you see and who you engage with. The fun of social media is in its ability to serve up…

And What They Have in Common with Indiana Jones — Let’s assume we’re Program Managers, and therefore responsible for the successful execution of a book of work. Our direct reports are Project Managers and those Project Managers own their respective projects. What then do we do with our time? We’re responsible for “oversight,” one of those words that is perfectly…

Half-baked observations because fully-baked commentary is boring and unhelpful (see: the curse of knowledge) — 🔎 Your Actions are Magnified People read into things. It’s easy to lose control. 🍌 Adapt Processes for Scale Most every process I had before doesn’t scale based on my new time constraints. 25 people needing my time is different than 4 people needing my time, e.g. 🧩 Don’t Try…

7 People Management Archetypes — People management would be easier if people were inanimate objects. Unfortunately, people do have more personality than chess pieces♟️ (and certainly more self interest 💁‍♀️). We interact with people every day and as much as PhD’s would like to boil down human interactions to a program, free will is a…

Because people have favorites even if they say they don’t — If you’re like me, you’ve never seen a brick wall you couldn’t run right into. My weeks (if not my days) are filled with brick walls. Some of them are barriers to my objectives and some are barriers to the objectives of others. …

I jump out of the plane, plummeting towards the ground much like the whale in that one movie. The wind against my skin feels absent as I’m focused on picking my position below. As the ground looms, I snap open my umbrella and glide safely to a roof top in…

Palms sweating? ✅. Heart racing? ✅. I’m preparing for what I anticipate will be a hard conversation at work. The difference between work and personal hard conversations is that at home I can just avoid them. (Totally healthy, right?). …