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The Valuable Employee Paradox
The good, bad and ugly of hierachy
Jan 30 • 
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Our Souls Need Proof of Work
On wanting and comfort in the era of AI
Mar 10 • 
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The Death of Product Development as We Know it
Goodbye three-legged stool, 2-pizza teams, and "managers"
Mar 25 • 
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The Looking Glass: Higher Level Design
A long-form post: what does it mean to achieve higher and higher levels of design?
Jul 17, 2023 • 
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The Looking Glass: Managing your Manager
Stop tolerating mediocre management
Aug 6, 2024 • 
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The Looking Glass: The Paradoxes of Data
Practical, magical, uncertain, and yet a tool for the most decisive
Feb 16, 2024 • 
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The Looking Glass: The Year of Everyday Risks
Aliveness, dullness and taking career risks
Jan 17, 2024 • 
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Conversational Interfaces: the Good, the Ugly & the Billion-Dollar Opportunity
The five biggest problems with today's conversational chatbot design
May 12 • 
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The Looking Glass: Sharpening Judgement
The art of making better decisions
Sep 12, 2024 • 
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The gifts of 40
Unintuitive life lessons I wish I'd learned earlier
Jun 28, 2024 • 
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The Looking Glass: The Origins of Leadership and Burnout
The hero's journey, and where things go wrong
Apr 16, 2024 • 
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The Looking Glass: the biggest reasons I failed to influence
How to convince someone in <50 words; remember what you pushed for; freedom to decide is an illusion
Jun 15, 2023 • 
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