This is a leadership skill that I donāt see talked about explicitly. When you are in a position of authority or seniority, that position carries a weight. Sometimes that weight is helpful to get things done, but it can also get in the way. We often go into meetings with people who have impressive titles…
šThereās Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraquib Abdurraquib is quickly become one of my favorite authors with his poetic storytelling and blending of different themes. Do yourself a favor and read anything by him. š¤The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz While this is written from the perspective of a founder and about…
I didnāt get to as many Black History Month books as I was hoping. I am trying to let my reading choices wander a bit more than in the past. All good though, and I have some books I meant to get to this month underway for March. šThe Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant. I…
I see a lot of people thinking of AI as a solution to avoid missing out on meetings or email responses. While this isnāt necessarily a bad idea, it can be problematic if the time saved just gets spent on more meetings and emails. The challenge is the Infinite Buffer Problem: in organizations of a…
It has been a dynamic time in the tech industry over the past five years or so and it appears the future will continue to be a bumpy ride. Here are a few concepts that have helped me navigate the changing landscape. š¤Identity ā Consider how much of your identity is bound up in your…
AI notetaking bots weird me out. Not logically, but emotionally. I appreciate their value and I donāt really worry about them doing anything harmful. Something about the current UI experience where bots join as equivalent to human users causes me to anthropomorphize them more than I would like. Whatās this creeper doing sitting silently in…
Statistics make great hooks to draw in an audience. LinkedIn posters know this. Though they donāt seem to be too concerned about supporting those statistics with sources. Whenever I see strong claims backed by stats with no source data, I immediately become skeptical of its validity. Here are two recent examples that stood out: ā80%…
Change is hard. Often because so much of our identity is connected to the roles we currently occupy. When those roles change, we lose who we think we are. What if we brought our identity down a step lower. If we identified not as the role we occupy, but as someone who is always growing…
New year, same old reading update posts. š¹The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Sharing the lived experience growing up in two different worlds. š¦Bird By Bird by Anee Lamott Hilarious lessons on writing and life. šDay Trading Attention by Gary Vaynerchuck A serious look at leveraging social media platforms for…
Sharing an amazing thank you message I received from Rahma Wario and the Qabale Duba Foundation. We hosted Rahma as a speaker this past October for Microsoft‘s Give campaign. Rahma shared the story of her journey advocating for her own education in Kenya, moving to the US to finish high school at Lawrence Academy, and…