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2026 6

  1. Good Interfaces Make Good Neighbors
  2. Ideas Over Implementation
  3. Prioritize Relatively
  4. Love What You Do
  5. Think of Pavlov
  6. The Gift of Naïveté

2025 9

  1. Find Space
  2. Positraction
  3. Emotional Economy
  4. You Are How You Act
  5. Honesty is the Best Policy
  6. Self Actualization
  7. Look For Yes
  8. Two Things Can Be True
  9. Product Innovation is Discovery not Creation

2024 3

  1. Inbox ten
  2. Unit of Work
  3. Incentives and the Cobra Effect

2023 8

  1. Bottlenecks vs Bandpass
  2. Get It Done
  3. Focus On Impact
  4. Focus
  5. Theory of Mind
  6. Cycle Time
  7. Limits of Service Leadership
  8. Overfitting

2022 6

  1. Curves
  2. On Sarcasm
  3. On Humility
  4. Etiquette
  5. Harness Selection Bias
  6. Half Staffed is Unstaffed

2021 22

  1. Be Plainspoken
  2. Operations
  3. Information and Effort
  4. Context and Conspiracy
  5. Humility and Hyperbole
  6. The Paradox of the Heap
  7. Redemption
  8. On Experts and Critics
  9. Asimov and Emotion
  10. Runaway Selection
  11. The Streetlight Effect
  12. Which Self
  13. Free Trade
  14. The Problem with Proximate Cause
  15. Second Order Anxiety
  16. Finding The Line
  17. Know Thyself
  18. Failure Theory
  19. Manage Your Manager
  20. The Last Bus Problem
  21. The Process
  22. Demand Side Problems

2020 36

  1. Severability
  2. Worst to First
  3. Strength Dictates Weakness
  4. Data Downfalls
  5. Biggest Fear
  6. War Room Stories
  7. Hearing Feedback
  8. Be Helpful
  9. On Middle Management
  10. Transparent Process
  11. Don't Break the Build
  12. Role Definition and Team Composition
  13. Learning to Stop Worrying and Love Management
  14. Portfolio Management
  15. The $200 Strategy
  16. On Organizational Structures
  17. Executive
  18. The Revenue Takes Care of Itself
  19. Corporate Athlete
  20. Traits I Value
  21. Stars and Guardians
  22. Management As Process
  23. Moon Illusion
  24. Radical Responsibility
  25. Nickels and Dimes
  26. Spot Checks and Brown M&Ms
  27. Transparency and Good Intent
  28. Honesty and Optimism
  29. On Reviews
  30. Time Management
  31. A Personal Interface
  32. Stable Infra
  33. Leaky Abstractions
  34. Arguments
  35. Value Add Disease
  36. The Right Price

2019 11

  1. Moon Shots & Problem Sizing
  2. Move Fast, Break Things Explained
  3. Conspicuous Presence
  4. Age of Authenticity
  5. Explain Like I'm Five
  6. The Benefit of a Short Emotional Memory
  7. Refuse to Rule
  8. How to Win An Argument
  9. How Not to Disagree
  10. Escalate Early and Often
  11. Mutual Knowledge

2018 9

  1. Antifragile
  2. Writing Is Thinking
  3. Mission, Strategy, and Tactics
  4. Breaking Bad News
  5. The P Rules
  6. The Pain is the Rehab
  7. Survivorship Bias and Growth
  8. Strong Opinions, Weakly Held
  9. A Career Cold Start Algorithm

2017 3

  1. Malcontents
  2. Ownership and Entitlement
  3. Listening is The Job

2016 5

  1. Communication is The Job
  2. Blind to Bias
  3. Damn the Org Chart
  4. Influence Over Authority
  5. Proportional Response

2015 16

  1. Speak For Yourself
  2. Shoshin
  3. Feedback Is A Gift
  4. Ask For Help
  5. Give Hard Feedback Fast
  6. Be Kind
  7. Take Longer Vacations
  8. Speak in Stories
  9. Conspicuous Absence
  10. Convincing Failure
  11. CTFOIGT
  12. Sense of Urgency
  13. Service Oriented Organization
  14. Ask for Advice, Not Permission
  15. Brands Are Tools To Help Humanity Scale
  16. The Impact Trap

2014 4

  1. Say Yes
  2. Time > Money
  3. Say No
  4. The Hacker Way

2009 1

  1. The Path Matters