The One About The Important Thing
One hundred episodes. For this occasion, years in the coming, Lyle and I talk about the thing itself — the nuts and bolts of the podcast, including how the robo
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The One About the Pro Leisure Circuit (Again)
In our 99th episode, Rands is back on the Pro Leisure Circuit — infinite time, a suspicious amount of Arc Raiders, and no wind in the sails — and we
The Mario Meeting
Review season. You start your career thinking the review is the most important milestone of the year, but as an individual, you only see part of the picture.
The One About The Joy of Bots
In our 98th episode, we list the things we've been building with our robots and figure out who we're really yelling at when it all goes wrong. Mentioned, refer
What Song is on Repeat in Your Head?
What’s it like to be you? Where did you get your name? What’s your story? What do you want to be when you grow up? What haven’t you done? What do you w
So You Want to Fix Your All Hands
I will now explain why at least 50% of your team finds your current All Hands to be a waste of their time. They believe: This is information they can easily
Here’s The Rub: We Don’t Believe You
Welcome, new leader. We're glad that you are here. Your arrival fills a critical vacancy in our team, and we can't wait to see what you can do at this company.
The Ask
Coffee in hand, I sit down in the Cave. Any Tuesday during the work week, a sip, and I parse the calendar. 1:1 — he's fine. Status meeting — listen. Staff me
Barely Treading Water
Carolyn, my chief of staff, sat on the couch as I ran into my office. The Palo Alto building wasn't built for tech; it'd been adapted to support the use case ov
The USB Situation
I write this from the latest MacBook Pro. I've been running this as my primary machine for almost a month. When I'm not grinding out the latest soon-to-be-relea
Sometimes Your Job is to Get in the Way
The Head of Product, Customer Service, and the CTO of Slack were sitting in the front row at an important conference. This was peak Slack; we were all the buzz,
The Slide
They don't want to hear it. They don't. It is legit good feedback. It is substantive, and it is 100% true, but they do not want to hear it. How do you