Eccentric Founders
Despite changing its corporate structure and name to Block, and even though it's been over a decade since I last worked there, I will always think of the company as Square. Those were...
Work
Executing Organizational Cartography
A few years back, during my early days at Affirm, a couple of us engineering leaders[1] were trying and struggling to orchestrate a reorg across our teams. There were a number of strong personalities...
Trust, then Clarify
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...
The Staff Meeting Ritual
Ah, the dreaded staff meeting. Chances are, if you work for a company of a certain size, you'll have been pulled into a staff meeting at some point. I'm not talking...
A Kiddom Retrospective
When I left my role at Mystery Science in the summer of 2021, I was left…a bit wanting. I expressly wanted to explore the EdTech space as my kids came of schooling age, but...
Checking In on the Remote Revolution
As I type these words, we're onwards of 4 years from the initial reports of a novel coronavirus showing up somewhere in China, and therefore about 3 years from when the first vaccines...