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The Skilled Manager’s Guide to Dealing With Underperformers

You can’t manage someone’s performance; you can only help them manage it themselves

9 min readNov 21, 2019

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The Skilled Manager’s Guide to Dealing With Underperformers

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Leadership Transparency: My Week in Review

A simple way to build trust and empower your team

9 min readJul 25, 2023

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A brown bear wearing an orange hoodie sitting at a desk while looking at a MacBook

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A Time Zone Converter Script Command for Raycast

To make it easier when working with people around the globe.

2 min readJan 23, 2023

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A screenshot that shows the Raycast interface, with the command for the Time Zone converter script with the values ‘3 PM’, ‘NYC, London, Kolkata’ and ‘list’.

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On ‘Visual Thinking’

The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions by Temple Grandin

2 min readDec 2, 2022

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The book cover for Visual Thinking — The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns and Abstractions by Temple Grandin

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Midjourney and DALL-E: a new kind of creativity

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…

4 min readAug 15, 2022

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“the Barnum effect has been seen again and again in studies.

— Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker

1 min readJun 26, 2022

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An infinite amount of subtle bits of signal

What We Lost eloquently explains my underlying feelings as we continue to navigate the pandemic.

1 min readFeb 14, 2022

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Now is an excellent time to take three minutes and write an email to the manager of that person at…

I promise you, that manager will appreciate it, and it will have a huge impact on the person you’re shining a light on.

1 min readJan 6, 2022

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What gets measured gets manipulated

Questioning the adage “what gets measured gets managed”

2 min readAug 7, 2021

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What gets measured gets manipulated

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Anthony Bourdain would’ve been 65 today.

Be a fool.

1 min readJun 25, 2021

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Anthony Bourdain sitting on stage at South by Southwest 2016

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Alex Jones

I lead multi-disciplinary, globally distributed teams that craft remarkable products for millions of people. I start fires (the good kind).

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