A simple way to build trust and empower your team — In mid-2020, I could feel the ties to my teams weakening. Some of this (okay, a lot of it) was due to the pandemic lockdown, which reduced the casual conversations with people based here in Austin and cut off travel to our other offices. Plus, as my team was growing…

To make it easier when working with people around the globe. I’ve just published my first script command: Time Converter, which takes a time (local to your machine), one or more locations, and pastes the time for each time zone. Examples Examples typed in US Central Timezone: 3 PM NYC, London…

The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions by Temple Grandin I recently finished Temple Grandin’s excellent Visual Thinking, which I highly recommend. It’s particularly interesting for me as I am able to think visually, but I do so in combination with verbal thinking (a “voice”…

I’ve been playing with AI-generated art via Midjourney and DALL-E, which take text prompts and turn them into images. That may not sound impressive, but the results show otherwise: —

“the Barnum effect has been seen again and again in studies. It’s a common error our brains make. Noted Cornell psychologist Thomas Gilovich defines it: “The Barnum effect refers to the tendency for people to accept as uncannily descriptive of themselves the same generally worded assessment as long as they…

You are quite literally built to sense an infinite amount of subtle bits of signal from your fellow humans. We were not built to live alone in caves; we were built to live together in them. What We Lost eloquently explains my underlying feelings as we continue to navigate the…

Now is an excellent time to take three minutes and write an email to the manager of that person at work who is routinely helpful and makes your life better. I promise you, that manager will appreciate it, and it will have a huge impact on the person you’re shining…

“[A] statistical metric may be a pretty decent proxy for something that really matters, but it is almost always a proxy rather than the real thing. Once you start using that proxy as a target to be improved, or a metric to control others at a distance, it will be…

Anthony Bourdain would’ve been 65 today. There are many things I could quote, but I love the sentiment in this snippet from a letter he sent to fellow chef David Chang: Be a fool. For love. For yourself. What you think MIGHT possibly make you happy. Even for a little…