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…

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 pandemic. I love the additional flexibility we all have to mold work around our lives, as opposed to our lives around work, but I deeply miss the in-person interactions. I don’t read this as depressing, though I could see it that way, rather I look forward to the time when we get to use all of our senses again. On a side note, Michael Lopp, the author of that post has likely had the most influence on my view of management and leadership of any human that I haven’t worked with directly.

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. …

“[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…

Be a fool.

This post on effort resonates. This piece serves as a good reminder on the relationship of talent and effort: if someone’s much better than you at something, they probably try much harder. You probably underestimate how much harder they try. I’m not saying that talent isn’t a meaningful differentiator, because…