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Things you learn in school that must be unlearned when you start building software products, a list:

1) School: Try at all costs to

The only way I know of to develop better product intuition for your own product is to:

1. Constantly use your product as a

How designers push back against PMs:

1) Moving metrics is not the point; actually solving problems is
2) Let's not just throw spaghetti at the

I now introduce myself as a design + data person.

What a joy it's been to build Sundial these past years! Yes, I fell

Mindmeld

Imagine you and your team are rowing a boat together. What will help you all get from Point A to Point B

The world needs more CEOs like Fidji Simo of Instacart.

Yesterday, Instacart IPO-ed after 5 quarters of profitability, tearing open (along with ARM) a

The most important thing I've learned about leadership

Week after week, I’d show up for a 1:1 at my manager's door with an appetite

Thank you all for bringing your high energy and spirits to our first-ever #TechWeek event!  We couldn’t imagine a more dynamic panel of

The origins of leadership and burnout

I’ve seen too many triumphs of workplace leadership to count.

It plays out the same way as a Star

The warm, subtle guiding hand of influence

Some years ago, my friend Ami Vora and I were planning a time to catch up. Our schedules wouldn’t

I have lost track of how many times I have cried in the workplace.

Not because my job sucked or I had unkind colleagues

My friend Helena Price has been doing this incredible series called "Founder Things" which is unlike most other things on the Internet focused

Had a wonderful time chatting with the one and only Leah Tharin, who is as real as it gets and somehow manages to

Today the Making of a Manager is 5 years old, has nearly 5,000 Amazon reviews, and is published in 19 languages!

The biggest

Do not place your faith in playbooks

Take this from a lover and writer of playbooks: they can never teach you how to do something

What makes Facebook / Meta so uniquely good at what they do?

The list is long -- from Mark's clarity of vision to the

There is no invention without faith

Creativity is a hot buzz word among tech types.

Every team hails itself as creative, innovative, inventive, <insert your unoriginal-yet-original buzzword

What leadership takes

Leadership is portrayed as refreshing and cool, a sip of elixir to slake a parched team desperate for guidance.

But this couldn’t

What is the difference between leadership and burnout?

There is the team, and there is the hero.

Some teams have been wrapped over too many

How to be a successful manager and have a multiply effect on collective outcome? 🤔

Recently I listened to an audio book called