How many books unironically validate their own criticisms? Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) aims to illustrate how people often disavow their mistakes and increasingly justify their poor behavior. In doing so, though—and...
It's a phone upgrade year in my household; I'm grabbing the new iPhone 17 Pro, while my wife is upgrading to a Google Pixel 10, and both of our parents are...
A theme that I return to on this blog, and throughout my time in people management, is dispelling the notion that leader knows best. It's an expression of the Great Man Theory, that...
I've been reading Brave New Worlds. It's a book by Salman Khan, founder and CEO of Khan Academy, on how Generative AI will change the way students learn and teachers teach,...
The student has become the master. That was what I was thinking as I was about two-thirds of the way through Apple in China, a book highly recommended by the author of Stratechery as possibly...
So a few months back, the folks at IT Labs reached out to see whether I was game to go on their podcast, CTO Confessions. It's been a while since I've...
