leadership Writing Club ✏️ And Writing Club was born! It was an idea I'd been mulling over for a while. I'd really love to say that I have the discipline to do any hard thing I want to do, but the older I get, the more I accept that accountability is really, really effective.
leadership Steli & Hiten on Prioritizing In school I was thorough and a hard worker. I liked to do everything, and do it in order. When I first worked at early-stage startups it quickly became obvious that my to-do list was longer than my available time. The only way to be successful there was to prioritize
leadership Finished Book: The ONE Thing I grabbed this book from the library because it's been so highly recommended, and because I've been enjoying the backlash to Busy Culture the last couple of years. I've been finding that my life feels much better when it's not packed to the gills and I can focus on only
Avoiding failure vs pursuing success Coming from the startup world, I used to think this advice [http://blog.eladgil.com/2011/09/hire-for-ability-to-get-shit-done.html] was unambiguously Good Advice not just for hiring, but for How to Be Good. "I don't care how smart someone is—if they are unable to work hard and crank out
Relying on volunteering is more unfair than you think In a conversation on Twitter, someone posed the question: what do you wish you'd known about bias when you started working in tech? One of my replies was "that assigning work by asking for volunteers is unfair." Another person was curious about my response and asked if there was something