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2018 363

December 2018

  1. Paying attention
  2. Spending time with the why and the how
  3. The 10 question annual review – 2018 edition
  4. Declutter day
  5. Drivers of success – the gap between actual drivers and what we read about
  6. The impact of “at this moment” in our self-talk
  7. Ready Player One
  8. Playing for managers who believe in us
  9. Sometimes all you need is a bit of perspective
  10. The challenge with food research and food trends
  11. Advanced skills and fear
  12. J&J and shareholder value
  13. Closed 33 per cent of the time
  14. Smartphone -> 3310
  15. Good PM = Problem Manager, not Product Manager
  16. Violent communication
  17. 5 reflections on technology from 2018
  18. 5 books that might change your mind – 2018 edition
  19. Behaviors in permanent shortage
  20. Investing – To Robo or not to Robo
  21. 9 Personal Finance Lessons from 2018
  22. Dollars or love per square foot
  23. Anger vs. tact
  24. Mistakes and good judgment
  25. The wrong kind of perseverance
  26. ALearningaDay.blog
  27. Zig Ziglar and the chasm
  28. Averages and statistics
  29. Product sense = The ability to build for value
  30. Take rest before you are forced to

November 2018

  1. Focusing on trends in feedback
  2. Influence – overestimating effects of what we say
  3. A fail safe method to guarantee misery today
  4. Maasai warriors and culture
  5. Breaking up with the first draft
  6. A principle for deciding on social engagements
  7. Opening windows
  8. Letting small things remain small things
  9. Happy thanksgiving
  10. The new kilogram and how scientists showed us the way
  11. The pragmatic approach
  12. Shopping for clothing – mixing outcome and process
  13. Knowing thyself – the foundation of long term career progress (feat. user manuals)
  14. How many followers? How much money?
  15. Stan Lee
  16. Stoicism
  17. Don’t optimize sub-systems
  18. The FIRE movement – tactics versus principles
  19. Is right vs. looks right
  20. Cleaning and insecurities
  21. Familial
  22. The HQ3 fiasco
  23. Written selling
  24. Lessons on change from making yoghurt
  25. Bad manager
  26. Learning systems
  27. What does a product manager do?
  28. Frontal assaults
  29. Sharpies and predictions
  30. Life lessons from the 30 year reunion

October 2018

  1. Probiotics and problems
  2. Stock market predictions
  3. The clarity overestimation problem
  4. The Amazon Empire And What Better Might Look Like
  5. Watches and time
  6. Dealing with the one star review
  7. Mvr
  8. Observation and Evaluation
  9. The problem with expecting to learn more from failure
  10. Behind every effortless display of skill
  11. Letting your art be art
  12. Understanding and expressing
  13. Notes on Product Management | Day in the Life of
  14. Great book experiences and oh shit moments
  15. The Exec Q&A communication Jedi progression
  16. Fast risks and slow risks
  17. Doing things poorly
  18. Ravana and the Khettarama stadium
  19. Understanding triggers
  20. Remembering Arthur Ashe
  21. Managers and people who solve problems
  22. Sources of learning – an evolving 10 year view
  23. Self-awareness is not what we think
  24. 3 lists of 3
  25. Technique and force
  26. On success – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  27. Logic, principle, and interests
  28. Counter productive behavior and perspective
  29. Unlimited vacation perks and game theory
  30. Productive communication
  31. Two question career advice

September 2018

  1. The World Cup, Google, And The Omnipresent Sorting Theory
  2. Avoiding the inconvenient no
  3. To learn and not to do
  4. Reflections from the billionaire war of words
  5. The blessing and curse of packet switching
  6. Our work won’t speak for itself.
  7. Hard skills and real skills
  8. Relentless
  9. Learning manners
  10. Friday connect-the-dots time
  11. Life and segmentation
  12. The worry triple whammy
  13. Sharing user manuals – a team building activity
  14. Decisions and culture
  15. Profitable, difficult, or important?
  16. Hopes and dreams – realized
  17. Wrong lessons from the Marshmellow test?
  18. The future of automation and work
  19. Creating content on the internet – 3 notes to self
  20. Developing kindness with awareness
  21. Yelp Review notes
  22. Jim Loehr on Daily Journaling
  23. The 3 laws of effective breaks
  24. Uncertainty on Continuations
  25. Discipline equals freedom
  26. Optimizing roadmaps for breadth vs. depth – Peacetime and Wartime
  27. To avoid mistakes and criticism
  28. Jim Loehr on Stress and intervals
  29. At least it won’t be for a lack of

August 2018

  1. What we want to do vs. who we want to be
  2. Good fences
  3. Working in our job vs. working on our job
  4. Worrying about what we should say or said
  5. Love the Plateau
  6. Managing expenses on Google Spreadsheets – follow up
  7. 2 kids under 2
  8. Things that do not scale – in business and life
  9. Investments and soap
  10. How to identify bad advice
  11. Managing expenses on Google Spreadsheets
  12. The three main things
  13. The pat routine
  14. The Law of Minor Annoyances
  15. Germs and shields
  16. RSS and Feedly
  17. A giraffe, elephant, and diversity
  18. Mastery – The Terry Laughlin summary
  19. Contribution and Impact
  20. Metrics we could optimize
  21. Dancing in the parking lot
  22. The next, next big thing
  23. The Pink Tax
  24. “Be yourself” can be really bad advice
  25. Good career advice
  26. Reset – 30 minutes at a time
  27. Hustle
  28. Less sweets and teaching
  29. The Shape of Us and Imperfections
  30. Back-and-forth
  31. Doing the opposite

July 2018

  1. All the noise
  2. Flossing and the power of great product design
  3. Resilient and antifragile
  4. Entertainment on the cheap
  5. Explaining problems better
  6. Xerox Parc
  7. The law of unattraction and problem solving
  8. Good for you
  9. Endings
  10. 3 notes on decisions for the week
  11. Reason, season or lifetime
  12. Challenging career switches and vanity metrics
  13. Attachment to principles versus processes
  14. Internet speed and monopoly power
  15. Looking outward
  16. Committing to rewriting
  17. Triumph of spirit
  18. Career decisions and partners
  19. The Queen died. The King died.
  20. Open plan offices – counter to the counter point
  21. Studying and Learning
  22. High yield savings accounts
  23. Gifts of the internet
  24. Don’t rush to be embarrassed by the first version of your product
  25. 4 shows that resonated
  26. The Art of Learning and other great books
  27. Outcomes we see
  28. Spasibo
  29. Directional answers and precise answers
  30. What if it were easier?
  31. Doing the thoughtful thing
  32. When you are ready

June 2018

  1. Not a race
  2. An undercurrent of perspective
  3. Content, Structure, Structure, Delivery
  4. Speed, velocity, tasks, and priorities
  5. Managing perception and leading with it
  6. How we were sold tobacco, bacon and the ideal of thin women
  7. The World Cup
  8. Hacking shopping – and productivity
  9. Removing stress and worry
  10. Abraham Wald
  11. Stepping out of the frame
  12. Macro patience, micro speed
  13. 3 steps to making that big career transition
  14. Fire and fire
  15. Get more vs. appreciate more
  16. Hard Choices Easy life
  17. Reactions and responses
  18. Dropping baggage
  19. Separating the writing from the thinking
  20. In data we (don’t) trust
  21. Don’t seek great mentors, seek great influences
  22. Don’t fret when things you want don’t come easily
  23. What policy led to this bad outcome?
  24. The jerk threshold
  25. Invisible asymptotes
  26. Tool problems and clarity of purpose problems
  27. We decide how we show up
  28. A finance thesis sheet
  29. Drowning doesn’t look like drowning

May 2018

  1. We only deserve a styrofoam cup
  2. Asking why and understanding why
  3. Rivers and clarity
  4. Phone detoxing
  5. From AI doomsday to IA, Orwell and Social Support
  6. Mmm Yummy
  7. Getting feedback on your regular meeting
  8. The commencement speech problem
  9. Throwing money at problems
  10. Optimal Stopping
  11. How they got to school
  12. Services I’m thankful for
  13. What happens after we use it?
  14. Backing your car into your driveway
  15. Whoops and Duke management lessons
  16. Your own flair
  17. Power, company, and behavior
  18. How’s it going?
  19. Post smartphone era weekends – a way to measure success
  20. 10 years of A Learning a Day
  21. Butterflies and Erosion
  22. It probably doesn’t need force
  23. Tai Chi and breathing
  24. Ask advice better – replace the generic question with a hypothesis
  25. The best leading indicator to good judgment
  26. I am really bad at that
  27. Building trust in relationships and teams
  28. Intent over words
  29. Presence must be like breathing
  30. Bad workplaces, poor work experiences and incompetent managers
  31. Interpersonal skills vs. Intrapersonal skills

April 2018

  1. The 100 year career
  2. Quantum Computing — Superposition Of Optimism And Pessimism
  3. 1 to 2 and 3 to 4
  4. The misunderstood relationship between financial risk and entrepreneurship
  5. Compare purchases to put them in context
  6. 3 principles of asking for favors
  7. Vacuuming and how work becomes meaningful
  8. High standards and writing great memos
  9. Sweating versus watching others sweat
  10. The hunter gatherer within
  11. Mashpi Reserve
  12. Giving strangers the benefit of the doubt
  13. Right in context
  14. The blind spot check
  15. What is the average age of a successful start-up founder in the US?
  16. Chess openings and learning like a chef
  17. Hello Feedblitz
  18. 64 pounds of plastic
  19. Choosing to reflect
  20. Work-rest fractal
  21. Downward Spirals
  22. Learning to Reset
  23. Courage and life’s dimensions
  24. We don’t get promoted at home
  25. The 3 laws of privilege
  26. Share development goals for the year
  27. Drawing well and white space problem solving
  28. Until it is too late
  29. Investing in Loss
  30. Anniversary of doing the work

March 2018

  1. The years are short
  2. Disagree on principles, not points of view
  3. Waiting for Headwinds
  4. Two ways of taming a stallion
  5. Bouncing back – stimulus, learning, response
  6. A simple culture test
  7. Listening to the resistance
  8. When work becomes art
  9. Seesaws and doing the opposite
  10. Focusing on slope vs intercept
  11. Changing things up
  12. Does loss aversion exist?
  13. What the hell is water?
  14. v29 – release notes
  15. How often before how well
  16. The purpose of planning
  17. More of what we like
  18. How to lose with a billion dollar team
  19. Committing to re-commit
  20. Saving good ideas for tomorrow
  21. We’re replacing your quarterly bonus with a lottery
  22. Going to be friends
  23. Clarity over completeness
  24. Wonder, perspectives and standing ovations
  25. Planning for the middle
  26. Awareness of the context
  27. 3 lessons from The Power of Moments
  28. What Is Going On In Ridesharing?
  29. Recharging creative muscles
  30. Molars
  31. Preferred Demographics and Stereotypes

February 2018

  1. Intensity over length
  2. Guiding your consumption
  3. Mindfulness and productivity
  4. One way to make failure acceptable
  5. Greener grass
  6. Mistakes, stress and confidence
  7. Imitation to Innovation
  8. Kurt Vonnegut and Drama
  9. Willingness to fall
  10. No outbound marketing, promotion or hype
  11. Co-authors
  12. Living in the present – in moderation
  13. Who sends you email?
  14. How much of your job is sales?
  15. User feedback and sophistication
  16. Getting a degree versus getting an education
  17. Optimizing for synthesis and reflection over reading and listening
  18. Why we expect crypto to be a big deal
  19. Unbiased is overrated
  20. Experiments and mis-steps
  21. How to: Better brainstorming with private collection
  22. Electric brush defaults
  23. This meeting will be a success if
  24. Executive vs. Manager
  25. Designing for what we will remember
  26. Personal Transformation
  27. Learning about gravity
  28. Bad boss

January 2018

  1. Stakes and pressure
  2. Winners and professionals
  3. What’s happening and how we are feeling
  4. Why we need to revisit the writing of Arthur Pigou
  5. Moments
  6. Setting days up to maximize Problem Solving versus Insights
  7. What we say yes to
  8. A short prep checklist for your next interview
  9. Genetic editing – a new era
  10. Reconciling an external focus and an internal focus
  11. Success and what the world wants
  12. To be present
  13. Stuffed giraffes and remarkable stories
  14. A formula for mentorship
  15. Single player games and timescales
  16. Character
  17. Real desperation and faked calm
  18. Evidence of wisdom
  19. Better for me or better for her?
  20. Rules and guidelines
  21. The good communication image test
  22. Motives versus Values II
  23. Motives versus values – I
  24. Choices versus decisions
  25. Why you should invest in Crypto in 2018
  26. Productivity and the manager in the mind
  27. Dealing with worry
  28. Questions and intent
  29. Maker days and manager days
  30. 21 day habits versus 3 year construction projects
  31. Thank you

2017 365

December 2017

  1. Pressing refresh
  2. 5 books that might change your mind – 2017 edition
  3. Default reactions
  4. Story arcs
  5. Visiting schools
  6. Pegging your self worth
  7. Self Review 2017 – Ten questions for yourself
  8. Under the ground
  9. 3 reminders for the holiday week
  10. Servers and the served
  11. When annual performance reviews work
  12. Please do not reply
  13. Results and processes when managing ourselves and others
  14. E-Estonia – Building a digital republic | My favorite excerpts
  15. Mudbloods and Pure Bloods
  16. Strong judgments
  17. Climate change counseling
  18. Lessons from my first year as a parent
  19. The day Amazon stopped being Amazon
  20. Stuck users
  21. In the know
  22. Friendship and trouble
  23. How much do you squat?
  24. Hacking money, travel and points with Chris Hutchins
  25. Rich conversations
  26. The first zero emissions natural gas plant from Net Power
  27. Cost of a meeting
  28. The world will roll on
  29. Can do
  30. Effective communication

November 2017

  1. Answering questions
  2. Finding opportunities to teach to learn
  3. Perspective and Politics
  4. It could always be better and worse
  5. Essayer
  6. What happened
  7. Adam Robinson on Understanding
  8. The whole world
  9. Old self behavior
  10. Pick up the phone
  11. In the know and oblivious
  12. Magic, algae and what we consume
  13. Having fun with it
  14. How to: Make introductions and connect people
  15. Potential to Kinetic
  16. Curators and synthesizers
  17. Aircrafts and Canmore on Unsplash
  18. Conflict and humor
  19. When in doubt
  20. Spending our attention
  21. Losing and being outscored
  22. Rigid on principles, flexible on process and vice versa
  23. I can change
  24. Fear will find you again
  25. Proximity, excellence and opportunity
  26. Solving for Carbon Dioxide
  27. It giveth and it taketh
  28. Becoming and being
  29. The Invisalign change model
  30. 3 recommendations – Unsplash, Exponential view and Recommendo

October 2017

  1. Unexpected behaviors
  2. Rich
  3. Product Leadership vs Product Management
  4. No mercy / no malice
  5. What have you taught recently?
  6. Three steps forward, two steps back
  7. What would help?
  8. Would it help?
  9. Smart or thoughtful
  10. Horses, cars, and the disruptive decade
  11. Comparing processes and comparing results
  12. Strong opinions and no curiosity
  13. Doing the work and presenting the work
  14. Which lever are you going to pull today?
  15. Street sweepers and lives that matter
  16. Work you love vs. Love your work
  17. Building reputation and incentives into marketplace products | Thinking Product
  18. Heavy bags on long hikes
  19. When teams and organizations become corporations
  20. Will this matter in 10 years?
  21. Self taught and self talk
  22. The war against coal is over
  23. How to: Network
  24. China and AI
  25. Heimat, Naturopathy, Nobels, and Factory Farming – Saturday Quartz goodness
  26. The impact of beef and mutton on land use
  27. Best decision in the past 5 years?
  28. Fruit flies and a celebration of scientific research
  29. Compounding habits
  30. First things
  31. Sending audios and optimizing flows | Thinking Product

September 2017

  1. When boiled potatoes were delicious
  2. Angst at the airport
  3. Hemingway Editor
  4. Centralization and Decentralization — blockchain and Kindleberger
  5. Small improvements in productivity
  6. Kaizen
  7. Reflections after a broken pipe
  8. The monks and the woman
  9. Working through plans A-Z
  10. Bruises
  11. Hypotheses and the synthesis process
  12. Grit and Theories – Synthesis tools
  13. From summaries to synthesis
  14. Connecting aspects of great products and great product strategy | Thinking Product
  15. Waiting for the IRS
  16. Lazy nations and indolent national cultures
  17. Breaking email and interconnected systems
  18. The 18 degree swim
  19. Lessons learnt from buying the Quartz book
  20. Calm
  21. Food and technology
  22. Mesh Wi-Fi systems
  23. Things we can count on to always be present
  24. Length of a feedback survey – 2 principles
  25. ALearningaDay email
  26. Is it really a serious problem?
  27. Retention – feat the tragedy of the commons | Thinking Product
  28. Don’t wait for inspiration
  29. Check and do what?
  30. Insecure t-shirt

August 2017

  1. Shutting the laptop with a bit of force
  2. Diamonds and good work
  3. It’s all invented
  4. Plans and planning
  5. How to compete with Google and Facebook
  6. What you know vs. what you do
  7. Unexpected twists
  8. Start small and mushroom
  9. The dark side of engagement | Thinking Product
  10. Being a leader vs. acting like a leader
  11. The work never stops
  12. Indomitable spirit
  13. The Shinkansen story
  14. Stones unturned
  15. Avoiding bad decisions
  16. Onboarding – Converting new users to power users | Thinking Product
  17. When in doubt, paraphrase the question
  18. Look, see, notice
  19. From Daimler to Didi
  20. Always on is always unhappy
  21. How should I feel about this?
  22. Practicing appreciation
  23. Growth – Getting those users | Thinking Product
  24. Differentiating measurement errors and management issues
  25. When do you feel owed
  26. Intellectual middlemen
  27. Quitting that iPad game
  28. CPG giants and the new e-commerce formula
  29. Discomfort and commitment
  30. Getting stickiness right | Thinking Product
  31. How to: deliver great introductions

July 2017

  1. But, is it unexpected?
  2. Engaging on engagement – half year review
  3. Wait
  4. Skipping the nuance
  5. Keeping a sense of humor
  6. Delight to use and The Economist Espresso – Thinking Product
  7. What did he do?
  8. A 2 minute visual
  9. Admitting ignorance
  10. Index on what you can’t easily compare
  11. Dollar per use and spending principles
  12. Biodiversity, periodic disturbances and our creativity
  13. Jobs-to-be-done and Munchkin spoons – Thinking Product
  14. Your environment versus your willpower
  15. News and essential newsletters
  16. Rewarding humane-ness
  17. Working hard at life
  18. Thought-action gap
  19. When you have that 2 minute break today
  20. Thinking Product | A stake in the ground
  21. Life happens with us
  22. Your information diet
  23. Why you should care about Net Neutrality
  24. 3 questions for reflection over the weekend
  25. Meetings you aren’t invited to
  26. Throw Back Thursday | Path-Sharers
  27. What if we assume they are having their worst day
  28. What a person commits to says little about them
  29. How do you choose the 4 dock apps on your phone?
  30. The WGYHWGYT Process
  31. Born a Crime – my favorite quotes

June 2017

  1. Time with yourself
  2. Power and brain damage
  3. We shall overcome
  4. B Complex
  5. How to: ask for a cold call
  6. Technology and Humanity
  7. What great educators do
  8. Omitting privilege
  9. Picking watermelons – a lesson in choices
  10. Writing about the same things
  11. Don’t do list
  12. Obstacle agnostic
  13. The high priest of perseverance
  14. A few thoughts on transitions
  15. Terrorism and lone gunmen
  16. I + E + L = Success
  17. Priority list proximity
  18. $299 learning
  19. Ask why, not what
  20. Things we generally take for granted
  21. Joe and Tetsuro Toyoda
  22. Stinking of curry
  23. Good questions
  24. Challenging, difficult and hard
  25. Great jobs are point-of-time references
  26. Lessons learnt from the 200 words project
  27. Time with trees
  28. Think big, act small, and plug away
  29. Limitations of Maps

May 2017

  1. Couldn’t and didn’t
  2. Plans and planning
  3. Manager and underling – gender issues at home
  4. Helping thyself
  5. Carbon Dating and Clock of the Long Now
  6. Designed for consumption
  7. Giving things your best shot
  8. Folks who play the disapproving voice in your head
  9. Existential and irreversible
  10. Blog changes and lessons
  11. Pacing yourself
  12. When you check your GPS
  13. Toward the unresolved
  14. Few mentors, more heroes and many wiser friends
  15. Organization – when it is useful and when it isn’t
  16. Thank you, Murphy
  17. Hopes and expectations
  18. In praise of incremental
  19. Galileo Galilei and time zones
  20. 9 years
  21. The hardest thing about gratitude
  22. The content creation consumption balance
  23. How we create standards
  24. The stream
  25. Standards we choose
  26. Clean water and the feminist movement
  27. Who owns the agenda?
  28. Fuel on the run
  29. The problem with facts
  30. Happiness of pursuit
  31. Fighting the current
  32. Your plans and the universe’s plans for you

April 2017

  1. Ignaz Semmelweiss and John Leal
  2. Finding great partners
  3. Influence and learning hard things
  4. The Founder
  5. No excuse workout
  6. The greatest privilege of them all
  7. Maturity
  8. Raising Chicago by 10 feet
  9. 20 dollars to 500 dollars
  10. Learning something you don’t know yet
  11. Right things and things right
  12. Bullying
  13. Question behind the question
  14. Direction, Outcomes, Processes
  15. Gym goer motivations and Doug Conant
  16. Waiting for blockbuster moments
  17. Switch off the feedback for a day
  18. Day 1
  19. The real problem
  20. Reasons to always share credit
  21. The life sine wave
  22. The Ikea effect and Origami cranes
  23. 3 responsibilities of an advice giver
  24. Most lethal
  25. How we let ourselves off the hook
  26. Good work
  27. Standards
  28. What has meaning
  29. Day Traders or Venture Capitalists
  30. Shredded sheets and acknowledgment
  31. Trees of green

March 2017

  1. Search for talent
  2. Principles of Focus
  3. Dealing with the unresolved
  4. In it together
  5. Living without expectations
  6. Bell Labs, de Forest and SONAR
  7. When good intentions become a problem
  8. Synthesis and the learning loop
  9. Car scratch
  10. Un catchy titles
  11. How Privilege Works
  12. Life happens in unexpected ways
  13. The phonautograph
  14. 28 2
  15. When is it a good time
  16. Adding affordances to your Ux
  17. The work longer impulse
  18. Go where they want you
  19. Keep calm and ship
  20. 10 million gallons of gas
  21. Good weekends
  22. Introducing The Notes by Ada Project | 5 things you need to know about technology every week
  23. Ending extreme poverty
  24. You and future you
  25. Open apps
  26. Why your garage matters
  27. Ikea Retail Therapy
  28. We are lent into each other’s keeping
  29. Learn as we go
  30. 3 scheduling tips for meetings with people you don’t know
  31. Lessons from queue optimization

February 2017

  1. Wrong stakes
  2. Stuff that matters
  3. Not selling Basecamp by the seat
  4. Lessons from buying jeans
  5. The problem with hiring for culture fit
  6. Invest the first ten minutes
  7. 5 strategy questions
  8. Stable self illusion
  9. The audience we deserve
  10. Carrier and mega cities
  11. Inflows and Outflows
  12. Hiring for intercept versus hiring for slope
  13. Fearless leader, Courageous leader
  14. Hans Rosling
  15. Builder Feedback and Armchair Critic Feedback
  16. A step closer
  17. Dr Gorrie and Flash Freezing
  18. The global caste system
  19. Consciousness and mistakes
  20. 5 Resume Principles
  21. Things that slow us down
  22. Disproportionate energy
  23. Policies and principles
  24. Frederic Tudor and Ice
  25. Enduring awesomeness
  26. That old dream
  27. Dissatisfaction space
  28. Influence

January 2017

  1. Dealing with type II uncertainty
  2. The Google approach to self improvement
  3. Paradigm shifts
  4. Flashback slam
  5. Myths we believe in
  6. Sure thing
  7. Today matters
  8. Unhappiness is a privilege
  9. Deeper information consumption
  10. Skipping the coffee queue
  11. Women’s March
  12. Mistake free
  13. Authentic
  14. Earn your stripes
  15. No deal
  16. Amplifiers
  17. What to do versus who to be
  18. Things we don’t usually talk about
  19. Germ theory and gender equality
  20. Fifteen steps backwards
  21. Less checking, more thinking
  22. Greatness
  23. Action replay
  24. When do you study
  25. Work worries
  26. Training wheels
  27. Fight frustration with systems
  28. The best habit
  29. Signing up for good habits
  30. State of Tech in 2016 – 4 core business models focus
  31. 2017 Themes

2016 367

December 2016

  1. Products and services I’m thankful for
  2. Internal tension and conflict
  3. The mentor excuse
  4. 10 questions – Annual review
  5. Building a Personal Mission Statement
  6. Abuse
  7. 5 books that might change your mind – 2016 edition
  8. The world sucks – vote for me
  9. Wish you perspective
  10. Think day
  11. I would never behave like that
  12. You don’t know what I’ve been through
  13. Voice of confidence
  14. Private victories, public victories
  15. Unglamorous moments
  16. Involving others in solving problems
  17. So much crazy
  18. Audit
  19. Mind control
  20. Better self talk – is this worth it
  21. Choosing information
  22. On parenting
  23. 4031
  24. Thanks Wikipedia
  25. Am versus habitually default to
  26. Grapefruit and Spinach
  27. More and better
  28. Mentorship and grit – The 200 words project
  29. Is everything alright
  30. Healthy means and healthy ends
  31. When companies become corporations

November 2016

  1. Who you look at in meetings
  2. First world situations
  3. Our instincts suck at first
  4. Laundry Love – The 200 words project
  5. Where does growth come from?
  6. Hypocrite
  7. Cosco ball
  8. Cause or alchemy
  9. Does it help
  10. To know, to learn
  11. Peak – a synthesis – The 200 words project
  12. One lie
  13. Guilt and Shame
  14. And that’s okay
  15. Beavers and rabbits
  16. Long held assumptions
  17. Outcome goals versus direction and process goals
  18. Ineffective Lectures – The 200 words project
  19. What the hell is water
  20. Values privilege
  21. Flights to insecurity
  22. Predicting the future
  23. When versus how
  24. Two sided tools
  25. The dangers of innate talent – The 200 words project
  26. Obvious to everyone else
  27. Daring greatly, dude
  28. Purpose and appreciation
  29. Thirty per cent
  30. Science and art

October 2016

  1. What they remember
  2. The case against innate talent – The 200 words project
  3. One book
  4. Most people
  5. Customer retention
  6. Default setting
  7. Fully engaged
  8. 3 phases of the job search process
  9. Deliberate practice minus the 10,000 hour rule – The 200 words project
  10. One hour
  11. A higher standard of discourse
  12. Luck or skill
  13. One metric that matters – for our lives
  14. 3 small things
  15. Sexism and cooking
  16. Testing for a relationship between innate talent and expertise – The 200 words project
  17. 3 thoughts for the weekend
  18. Machine values with Joi Ito and Barack Obama
  19. Deadliest animals and availability bias
  20. The hard thing about self worth
  21. People leverage and System leverage
  22. Not okay
  23. The London taxi driver study – The 200 words project
  24. Create dots to connect
  25. One conversation decision to rule them all
  26. Back the car in at night
  27. Bright eyed
  28. If it matters
  29. Which book
  30. Giving an A – The 200 words project
  31. Might be short

September 2016

  1. Release notes
  2. Five career priorities
  3. Ikea
  4. Field of Dreams fallacy
  5. Compounding
  6. Ray Dalio investment autopsy – The 200 words project
  7. On brand
  8. Leadership and imagination
  9. Discussing ideas versus discussing people
  10. What’s the point
  11. Plant trees now
  12. Drinking enough water
  13. Extreme preparation – The 200 words project
  14. Dreams for granted
  15. Notes on responses
  16. First thing
  17. Confusion matrix
  18. Helped me out list
  19. Choice vs Tension
  20. Lady Gaga’s product advice – The 200 words project
  21. Hwmyl
  22. Elevate
  23. Small moments
  24. To daily heroes
  25. Amazon experience
  26. Time pressure
  27. Achievement vs. potential – The 200 words project
  28. Roads not taken
  29. Downstream effects
  30. Nobel Prize winners

August 2016

  1. Low flame
  2. Later
  3. Do our absolute best
  4. Monsters in the basement – The 200 words project
  5. Bigger houses
  6. “Just a little”
  7. Path focus
  8. Happy to assist
  9. Who is paying for it
  10. Redefine deep work
  11. Lessons learnt from the sugar conspiracy – The 200 words project
  12. Two looming questions
  13. Daniel Barenboim
  14. Thank you so much
  15. Exponential creation of knowledge
  16. Marching well
  17. Where energy and inspiration come from
  18. The sugar conspiracy – The 200 words project
  19. Earth Overshoot Day
  20. Today’s sacrifice
  21. Purpose of the quantified self
  22. Not getting recognized
  23. Values cost money
  24. Simple philosophy
  25. The fat hypothesis – Part II – The 200 words project
  26. On our terms
  27. Care mismatch
  28. Batch processing meetings
  29. Geography and success
  30. Desalination and constraints
  31. The 2 project design

July 2016

  1. The fat hypothesis – Part I – The 200 words project
  2. 2 questions for better conversations
  3. Characteristics of great advice
  4. Machines take away horrible jobs
  5. The energy management question
  6. The gratitude loop
  7. The next game
  8. Um, like and being heard – The 200 words project
  9. Anti-intellectualism and racism
  10. There is too much to read
  11. Great customer service email
  12. Malleable
  13. Speed of awareness
  14. Satisficers and Maximizers
  15. Building Lost Boy 6 seconds at a time – The 200 words project
  16. The things that made them great
  17. But, what can you do?
  18. Let them know
  19. The it is what you make it approach
  20. Positive signals on cars
  21. Serena, Cristiano and Roger
  22. The phonograph – The 200 words project
  23. Reflections from my AirBnB experience – 1 cancellation and 2 declines
  24. How to drive people crazy
  25. When is it your responsibility
  26. Little strokes of luck
  27. What is the problem?
  28. Consciousness and creativity
  29. Foundations of culture – The 200 words project
  30. Invite the rub
  31. Knowledge to skills and learning to insight

June 2016

  1. The erase or dwell response problem
  2. Penny saved is worth more than a penny earned
  3. Finding cousins – The DNA journey
  4. The initiative fallacy
  5. Leadership and consistency – The 200 words project
  6. Brexit reflections
  7. Go backward or go forward
  8. Don’t scar on the first cut
  9. Teaching by being
  10. Attitude toward discomfort
  11. Fixed self descriptions
  12. The Wright brothers’ lean startup – The 200 words project
  13. The real cost of weak promises
  14. Defining trust
  15. We’ll make it work
  16. A conversation with Clay Christensen
  17. The shrinking circle of influence
  18. 2 way growth
  19. Persist or not? – The 200 words project
  20. The Great Salmon Run
  21. A few thoughts on relationships – the final MBA Learning
  22. OMTM for German publishers
  23. Over index on the intangible
  24. IQ versus DOT
  25. Dithering and Constraints
  26. Curing stomach ulcer – The 200 words project
  27. Demonstrating gratitude
  28. Climb a cliff to get to school
  29. Your human-size life
  30. Big Bang vs. The Drip Part II

May 2016

  1. MVPs and the cringe
  2. Interviewing Dan Ariely
  3. Failure and the social sciences – The 200 words project
  4. Bittersweet
  5. Obsessive people doing their thing
  6. The annoying commentator
  7. Tweaking the environment
  8. Amateur pilots
  9. Negative energy triggers
  10. Why science is hard – Part II – The 200 words project
  11. The big bang or the drip
  12. The personal social media usage manual
  13. Fix the lifestyle you want, then work backwards
  14. Givers and cynics
  15. Leadership in 1 page
  16. The first step with dealing with your demons
  17. Why science is hard – Part I – The 200 words project
  18. FiveThirtyEight
  19. First principles thinking with Dean Jacobs
  20. 8 years
  21. Skills and knowledge
  22. Generous email is alive
  23. Looking good and getting good
  24. The Popeye spinach myth – The 200 words project
  25. It’s all in our head
  26. The child prodigy
  27. Generosity with compliments
  28. Confidence and commitment
  29. The Leicester City story
  30. Your future self equation
  31. The supermarket willpower test – The 200 words project

April 2016

  1. Why me?
  2. Tiger – Spy in the Jungle
  3. 2 questions for most team dysfunctions
  4. Jobless Einstein
  5. Yes, but, how much?
  6. The two best pieces of health advice I have gotten
  7. The baldness game – The 200 words project
  8. Interviewing Seth
  9. Waiting for passion
  10. What you are doing vs. who you are being
  11. Living in day-tight compartments
  12. Disentangling situation from mood
  13. Re-frame to let go
  14. Rule number 6 – The 200 words project
  15. Actions unmask intent
  16. Because I said so
  17. Dealing with writing frustration
  18. Integer
  19. Deconstructing a mistake
  20. Leadership, management, culture – definitions
  21. Coronary by-pass surgery success – The 200 words project
  22. It is personal but don’t take it personally
  23. Diffusing tension immediately
  24. Data for trash
  25. The teacher or the course
  26. Never lose
  27. Sharing praise and concentrating criticism
  28. Any special requests? – The 200 words project
  29. Dealing with Death
  30. Age and wisdom – correlation and causality

March 2016

  1. Reflect on it and then you will be done
  2. The parable of the wind and the sun
  3. The tour guide at Giza
  4. A few thoughts on culture
  5. The Curry workout – The 200 words project
  6. The short straw
  7. I know what I need to do
  8. The Chief of Staff
  9. No pie charts
  10. Basic Income Guarantee
  11. Brevity isn’t all that important
  12. Bothered by limitations – 10x thinking – The 200 words project
  13. The 35k lesson
  14. 27 2
  15. Updating 180 book reviews
  16. Unite or Divide
  17. The tension between relationships and processes
  18. Falling is guaranteed
  19. 10x, not 10% – The 200 words project
  20. Tim Cook on RoI
  21. When playing law enforcer
  22. The main thing
  23. Responding to mockers and haters
  24. Keeping a To do Archives file
  25. What do I need to believe for this to be true
  26. Fiber Optics and Selfies – The 200 words project
  27. Deconstructing critic behavior
  28. From wholeness and not from wounds
  29. Talking out of and acting out of problems
  30. Seriously – what you do and who you are
  31. Transparency and full disclosure

February 2016

  1. Buying jeans
  2. The Power of Glass – The 200 words project
  3. The benefits of being tough with yourself
  4. The Piano Guys
  5. The first step to fixing something
  6. Being disciplined about the critical path
  7. Welcome to Foundry – setting expectations 101
  8. Earphones at dinner
  9. Good relationships and the good life – The 200 words project
  10. Behind the curtain
  11. Desiderata
  12. Not perfect
  13. Working capital and cash conversion cycle – MBA Learnings
  14. Stacking meetings and owning your calendar
  15. Inspiration without structure
  16. Quantity and creativity – The 200 words project
  17. Heidi, Girl of the alps
  18. Benefits of laptop crashes
  19. Predictable ways
  20. KIS – MBA Learnings
  21. 5 small tweaks aiding intensity
  22. Picking up the phone
  23. Paying the smartphone tax – The 200 words project
  24. Saying 3 things
  25. A few notes on British Airways: Fuelled by Love
  26. The Apple Pay moment
  27. Career and life lessons from a business class upgrade
  28. Shifu-isms – doing only what you can do
  29. Being reductionist

January 2016

  1. Attention residue and shallow work – The 200 words project
  2. Educators
  3. Anticipation – The Gretzky way
  4. The recruiting journey through self doubt – MBA Learnings
  5. To have a shot at change
  6. What are you taking a break from?
  7. Breaking rhythms
  8. Addicted to distraction – The 200 words project
  9. Opportunities – access and utilization
  10. The cost is not just the cost – MBA Learnings
  11. Legacy questions
  12. Observing vs. Judging
  13. Approaching mock interviews or presentations
  14. Clubs that don’t accept you
  15. Out on a limb
  16. Unintended consequences
  17. People who gave you a shot
  18. When you are thankful
  19. Thoughts on Marketing Strategy and Branding – MBA Learnings
  20. The Road Less Traveled
  21. The moment we grow up
  22. A deep life
  23. Is it the light?
  24. What you do vs. how you do it
  25. Feeling bad because of something you said
  26. Investing limited resources
  27. Phone out of the bedroom
  28. How to ask for help from people you don’t know
  29. Tech in 2015 – Looking Back and Looking Forward
  30. 16 life principles
  31. Working very hard
  32. Would it help?

2015 365

December 2015

  1. On writing every day
  2. Specific compliments
  3. The way of focus
  4. The growing outrage surrounding Free Basics by Facebook
  5. No, not now
  6. Simple traditions
  7. Books that made an impact – 2015
  8. Picking people
  9. The 10 question annual reflection form
  10. I’m in, now what – MBA Learnings
  11. Reflecting on my use of devices and media
  12. Saying yes, saying no – The 200 words project
  13. Tension everywhere
  14. Perfection worship
  15. To Think List
  16. Boyan Slat
  17. Who has the right answer?
  18. Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos
  19. 2 year social proof – The 200 words project
  20. Living with a list
  21. Thinking Product: Economist Espresso magic
  22. Designing for introversion – MBA Learnings
  23. Reading books and studying books
  24. What they will tell you
  25. Doing it wrong, relentlessly
  26. Weirdness and the Empty Chair – The 200 words project
  27. How you build culture
  28. What confidence is and where it comes from
  29. Making it a habit to tell it as it is
  30. Thinking Product: Amazon Kindle Support awesomeness
  31. Micro observations and the long, unglamorous road

November 2015

  1. Water hypocrisy
  2. Bill Campbell style 1:1s
  3. Relax hard
  4. Teaching without teaching
  5. Privilege and thanksgiving
  6. Spending time with my dark side
  7. Leadership and a bigger heart
  8. A requisite for good convergent thinking
  9. Discuss the flaws – The 200 words project
  10. David Allen on Re-entry
  11. Quadrant II – invest to prevent fire fighting
  12. Meager resources and fluid plans
  13. News frame-of-mind versus Meditation frame-of-mind
  14. Walking meetings
  15. In control or out of control
  16. The expert trap – The 200 words project
  17. Paris reflections
  18. Amazon’s Udaan program – MBA Learnings
  19. Self awareness – switch flip vs long march
  20. They have no idea
  21. The crazy in the news
  22. Maybe happiness is this
  23. Good enough – The 200 words project
  24. Stretch
  25. Clinical execution
  26. Complete No and Partial No
  27. Why Amazon’s first physical bookstore was both inevitable and smart – MBA Learnings
  28. Consistent greatness
  29. Perpetuity
  30. First Principles Reasoning – The 200 words project

October 2015

  1. We are what we repeatedly do
  2. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
  3. Hiring for expertise vs. hiring for attitude
  4. Micro decision tests and when will I learn?
  5. Investment returns
  6. Rethinking feedback (1/4) : Why most personal feedback is useless
  7. Slash and Burn your calendar – The 200 words project
  8. 5 stars
  9. Giving thought to your to do list
  10. How work gets done
  11. A few notes from my Big Data and Analytics classes – MBA Learnings
  12. A learning from Chocolat
  13. Downtime focus
  14. Meaningful anxiety – The 200 words project
  15. What do you value
  16. Vulnerability
  17. There are a million ways to do something wrong
  18. What should Volkswagen do? – Part II – MBA Learnings
  19. Lollipop moments and changing the world
  20. I make mistakes
  21. The Stress Paradox (Part 1/2) – The 200 words project
  22. Move fast and break things
  23. Hiring, strategy and commitments
  24. It will feel better, later
  25. Reflecting on my summer internship – MBA Learnings
  26. The boring guide to public speaking
  27. Extenuating circumstances
  28. Invite the awful – The 200 words project
  29. Taking difficult personal decisions
  30. Rating people
  31. What works and what doesn’t

September 2015

  1. How learning works
  2. Never done
  3. Good Tired and Bad Tired – Harry Chapin
  4. Collection of mediocre skills – The 200 words project
  5. 3 things I’ve learnt about the good life idea
  6. What should Volkswagen do? – MBA Learnings
  7. Not taking offence
  8. Is it a lot of work?
  9. Autonomy
  10. Disproportionate impact
  11. Red flag law – The 200 word project
  12. 10 years ago
  13. If you are trying really hard and nothing is working
  14. Chatter
  15. My Facebook News Feed and me
  16. Unsettled and out-of-sorts
  17. A few notes from Djokovic vs. Federer
  18. What would a new person do? – The 200 words project
  19. Small and extraordinary
  20. The perfect break
  21. Hard-to-get
  22. Downstream consequences
  23. I am enough
  24. What got you here won’t get you there – MBA Learnings
  25. The social media scavenger hunt – The 200 words project
  26. Power to the people
  27. Emotional intelligence in one sentence
  28. The man in the arena
  29. Letting go
  30. Counter intuitive

August 2015

  1. Writing out presentations
  2. Jeff Bezos on being right a lot – The 200 words project
  3. A 3 part framework for great managers
  4. Silent and Loud
  5. The first rule about advice
  6. Equanimity
  7. Performance
  8. Decide-by-numbers
  9. The Eisenhower anger drawer – The 200 words project
  10. Thinking product
  11. Sunk costs and bitter pills
  12. 3 productivity principles – MBA Learnings
  13. Adapt and reinvent
  14. Inviting pain
  15. The point of safety stock
  16. Escalation of commitment – The 200 words project
  17. The small moments
  18. An alternative to traditional tier based evaluation systems – MBA Learnings
  19. Energy and willpower
  20. PhraseExpress – Product Review 6
  21. Goofball or friend
  22. There’s always a bigger yacht
  23. Context for recommendations – The 200 words project
  24. Digging into my first year process – MBA Learnings
  25. Filler words
  26. Less than I hoped, more than I expected
  27. Thinking about perception when responding to email
  28. Dametra Cafe – Product Review 5
  29. Fewer words
  30. Expert predictions – The 200 words project
  31. Shifting in progress

July 2015

  1. 2 characteristics of systems that work in the long run
  2. The B2C2B era and its implications for us
  3. Redirecting focus
  4. Warmth and Competence – MBA Learnings
  5. Path-sharers
  6. Axiata and Amazon press releases – The 200 words project
  7. Growing pains
  8. Fitbit Flex – Product Review 4
  9. Predictors of performance
  10. I am right and you are the prick
  11. Goals vs. systems and its implications on management
  12. The JWM DIR system – The 200 words project
  13. The Skimm – Product Review 3
  14. There’s always something
  15. 3 happiness principles – a synthesis of 50+ books
  16. 3 things I’ve learned about problems
  17. 1 line checkouts are much better than multiple line checkouts – MBA Learnings
  18. Inside out
  19. Assertive communication and passive teams – The 200 words project
  20. George Ezra
  21. Surviving Pune
  22. Chevron Pump – Product Review 2
  23. Selling 22,200 girl scout cookies
  24. Conflicting incentives – MBA Learnings
  25. Happiness is not a station we arrive at
  26. Howard Moskowitz and Spaghetti Sauce – The 200 words project
  27. Distinctly un-cool
  28. Audible app for iOS – Product Review 1
  29. Fitbit and lifestyle
  30. Amazon pop up stores and retail

June 2015

  1. The small things
  2. Huger mistakes and better processes
  3. Realistic job preview – The 200 words project
  4. The energy rule
  5. Making policy decisions
  6. The tension between a debt tax shield and costs of financial distress – MBA Learnings
  7. Waiting 15 minutes to try out a watch
  8. When everything is a bonus
  9. 3 lessons from Kung Fu Panda
  10. Creativity is a renewable resource – The 200 words project
  11. Small things and big things
  12. 3 questions worth focusing on
  13. 9 notes on competition
  14. But, I didn’t know
  15. The skills we need
  16. Soldiers and generals
  17. SonoSite resources – The 200 words project
  18. Listen to everyone…
  19. Integrity in work
  20. Not easy to measure
  21. Growing up
  22. Checklists for all small wins
  23. Jony Ive on a focus lesson from Steve Jobs
  24. Focus as a verb or noun – The 200 words project
  25. The 3 step decision tree for opinions
  26. A sign of mastery..
  27. Why a belief in the importance of giving and receiving personal feedback is misplaced
  28. Statistical fluctuations and dependent events – MBA Learnings
  29. Paranoid optimism
  30. Interacting with a single stimulus

May 2015

  1. Louis Pasteur cholera cultures – The 200 words project
  2. Ben Horowitz on adding value and not following your passion
  3. No ask, no get
  4. I am leader
  5. Managing queues – MBA Learnings
  6. Getting comfortable with good enough
  7. The same long task list
  8. Brain-writing – The 200 words project
  9. Prioritizing rest
  10. Cattle leadership
  11. 5 pieces of internet etiquette
  12. The biggest choice
  13. Do it for yourself – never mind everyone else
  14. There’s no right path
  15. The tripwire – The 200 words project
  16. The Ronaldo effect
  17. The bowling progression
  18. Can’t talk yourself out of a problem you’ve acted yourself into
  19. Watch fewer TED talks and read fewer blogs
  20. Non attachment
  21. 7 years
  22. Questions and tentative talk – The 200 words project
  23. Working hard and offending people
  24. Appreciating gravity
  25. The only sure-fire way to get fit
  26. Optimizing proxy measurements – MBA Learnings
  27. The nature of competition
  28. Influence and concern
  29. Kite strings – The 200 words project
  30. The bigger accident superstition
  31. Making your own mistakes

April 2015

  1. Lean operations in real life – MBA Learnings
  2. Knowledge work and connection work
  3. Nap clarity
  4. Celebrating ourselves and those around us
  5. Process, spot and Rory McIlroy – The 200 words project
  6. Loss
  7. The Good Life Sessions – MBA Learnings
  8. The view
  9. The success measure
  10. Your dark side
  11. Re-framing no
  12. Find your show dog – The 200 words project
  13. Keeping commitments
  14. The only question – Jiro Ono and Rene Redzepi
  15. The behavior you expect
  16. The simple things
  17. Understanding the theory of constraints.
  18. Seeing yourself as you could be
  19. 70 year old selves – The 200 words project
  20. Being a beginner
  21. The paradox of revenge – MBA Learnings
  22. Dancing with discomfort
  23. Organization and creativity
  24. 100% activity, 0% productivity
  25. “Jennifer, relax.”
  26. Think-week – The 200 words project
  27. “Yes, Mom, I am thinking”
  28. Comfort with knots
  29. The obstacle
  30. Searching for the good life – MBA Learnings

March 2015

  1. The ALearningaDay school of blogging
  2. Seeking dissent
  3. Viktor Frankl and Crabbing – The 200 words project
  4. Teachers and salesmanship
  5. Lao Tzu and the digestive system
  6. For them or for us
  7. A letter to an incoming student – MBA Learnings
  8. Noise and prayer
  9. Lee Kuan Yew
  10. Find your Herbie – The 200 words project
  11. Getting mission statements right – MBA Learnings
  12. Staying with problems
  13. What to be vs. what not to be
  14. 26
  15. Lessons learnt from internship recruiting – MBA Learnings
  16. Bad is far worse than none
  17. Ask others – The 200 words project
  18. No, you don’t really know
  19. The like-respect conundrum
  20. What changes and what doesn’t
  21. Compounding learning
  22. Rules vs. Guidelines – MBA Learnings
  23. Fear, duty or inspiration
  24. The $4000 false decision – The 200 words project
  25. The double whammy principle
  26. Starting ahead
  27. Art in human interactions
  28. The Dropbox peace-of-mind – MBA Learnings
  29. 3 steps to approaching behavioral interviews
  30. No getting around focus
  31. Hygiene and Motivation factors – The 200 words project
  32. Ser Allister Thorne on leadership

February 2015

  1. Nobel prize winners and stupidity – MBA Learnings
  2. The perfect spaghetti sauce
  3. Immortalized through music
  4. Building great teams
  5. Looking for the next mountain
  6. Someone’s dad or mom – The 200 words project
  7. The truth about admissions and hiring
  8. The tension between who you are and who you want to be
  9. Being human
  10. Are you failing enough? – MBA Learnings
  11. Bad design makes you look stupid
  12. Mental adventures and our search for engagement
  13. Do goals prevent success? – The 200 words project
  14. People who believe in you
  15. The opposite of viral
  16. When you most need help..
  17. Diversity and “inclusion” vs “exclusion” – MBA Learnings
  18. The process wisdom frontier
  19. Finding root causes
  20. The weight of those who are gone
  21. Technical debt and management debt – The 200 words project
  22. Internal seasons
  23. Things that will not change
  24. Despicable behavior and internet ethics
  25. Relevant costs and their implications on decision making
  26. Shorter strides
  27. Seeking tension – the MLK Jr. way
  28. Partitioned cookies – The 200 words project

January 2015

  1. Availability bias, news, and Google vs. Apple/Amazon
  2. When to be disappointed and when not to be
  3. If by Rudyard Kipling
  4. Paul Bennett on Design – MBA Learnings
  5. Chatter and MYOB
  6. Crazy odds and star stuff
  7. Selection bias and winners – The 200 words project
  8. Digital workflow
  9. The struggle and the road
  10. Do defaults save lives? – MBA Learnings
  11. Keeping perspective
  12. Planting trees before you need the fruit
  13. Why mobile and native ads are a big deal
  14. The Matt Damon method of finding help – The 200 words project
  15. 5 books that made an impact – from 2014
  16. Tim Duncan and Hurricane Hugo
  17. This will come of use again
  18. The Sandwich Strategy – MBA Learnings
  19. Building teams that innovate – learning from history
  20. The email tool
  21. Invented divisions
  22. Lines give us confidence, not dots
  23. Introduce people by sharing what they mean to you
  24. Wish and want
  25. Why MBA – MBA Learnings
  26. Connected home questions and its implications for tech
  27. Talent spotters
  28. Training wheel systems
  29. It is always easier to do nothing
  30. Measuring laundry
  31. 3 thank you’s

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