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Early in my career, a mentor gave me a simple system: tell people what you're going to do, do it, then tell people you did it. From engineer to consultant to founder, I've learned that was the start of the biggest lesson of my career — the hardest thing about work isn't the work, it's the work…
As AI-supported feedback becomes more common across education, institutions face important questions around governance, transparency, fairness and professional judgement.
Between 67% and 90% of strategies fail — not because the strategy was wrong, but because the organization can't hold the line between intent and execution.
Every company has it. Most leaders underestimate it. And almost no one books it as a line item. Gallup measures it in trillions. Bain measures it in days per week. Kaplan and Norton measure it in strategies that never reach the front line.
A few months ago, I was reviewing a pull request that added three new API endpoints. The diff was clean. Tests passed. The agent that generated it had even written sensible authorisation checks. By ev
You adopted the AI notetaker. Summaries land before you've closed the Zoom tab. Action items are extracted. You're moving faster. So why does Monday still feel the same? Why are follow-ups still leaking? The notes got better. The work didn't.
Good managers generate more bandwidth than they consume. Bad managers consume more bandwidth than they generate. Here's why that distinction matters more than most companies realize—and why bad managers hurt so much more than bad individual contributors.
The real problem isn't that AI is coming for your job. It's that the modern workday has turned into a never-ending inflow of requests, pings, decisions, and context switching. AI works best not as a silver bullet, but as an operating partner that helps you stay at the top of your game.
Managing a coding CEO isn't about stopping them from coding. It's about building a padded room where they can do cool karate moves without breaking the furniture.
"Stuck" is rarely a skills problem; it's a system problem. Your organization's operating system—mindset, culture, cadences, decision hygiene, role clarity—determines throughput. With a broken OS, even A-players stall.
Startups spend millions on craft beer and fancy offices while missing the one thing employees actually need to stay engaged and committed.
Based on what I've learned from role models and mentors in Amazon
Revenue flatlined. Churn crept up. Three quarters of missed numbers. But at all-hands? Smiles, vision decks, and talk of 'short-term headwinds.' The cost of that mask was higher than any missed target.
What makes a good leader? What do good leaders do? And commando, soldier, and police leadership.
AI replaced the gap between my role and my potential. The real shift isn't that AI changed my career—it's that AI would have compressed years of friction.
Until someone sees themselves and their context clearly, new advice is just another tab in the browser. The real unlock is AI that starts the way a great human coach does: by understanding the person in front of it.
ML systems, production & scaling, execution & collaboration, building for users, conference etiquette.
What to interview for, how to structure the phone screen, interview loop, and debrief, and a few tips.
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