Oooof. Tech Twitter lit up last week on the drama surrounding Basecamp and their announcement of new company policies, centering around a ban on societal and political discussions on official company forums. For those unfamiliar,...
As it usually happens, what my friend @jackdanger tweets out quickly turns into food for thought, and eventually blog fodder: I’ve noticed that as companies get bigger, small-company managerial norms → big-company exec exceptionalism. Sometimes...
What Got You Here Won't Get You There feels like a book written for a past era. The author is an executive coach—an actual one, who regularly takes on Fortune 500 C-level...
One nice benefit of not having any job lined up is that there is more time, outside of household chores and virtual schooling, to read and listen to podcasts, catching up with my backlog of...
The original Netflix culture deck[1] is one of the major pieces of modern Silicon Valley lore. It’s a presentation describing the core tenets the culture at Netflix, a set of aggressive norms rebuking...
Recently, I've been helping our company make a handful of business-critical hires for the team, one of which is an open managerial role in our New York office[1]. I've long...
