Communication
How to tell a story
Six arcs to help you craft a better story.
Communication
Six arcs to help you craft a better story.
AMA
Subscriber lead question post for November.
Burnout
👻 Sunday scaries is a slang describing the anxiety of starting the next workweek. The best time of the week to think about quitting or quiet quitting.
Influence
Six pillars of influence and what it means.
Leadership
Everybody gets to choose their version of a hard choice.
Life
"you can't change the past, but you might learn something from it."
Writing
What it's like writing for 6 months...
Frameworks & Mental Model
Say No more often.
Vision
Keep an idea humble, succinct, and outcome oriented.
Leadership
What does it mean to be a leader?
Career Growth
"I just want to design"....
Life
How is your Sunday? From my last update in June, I had an intense month of May and decided to take a break from posting weekly. I'm happy I slowed things down. I went to physical therapy and found out I have a frozen shoulder! 🥶 I have a
Communication
Thank you for your patience while I took a 1-month hiatus from posting weekly. It wasn't planned at all, the last 4 weeks have been an overload and I didn't have the mental/physical capacity to write on my downtime. Highlights: 1. Got Club Suite seats
Burnout
This past week, I had the biggest personal win in the last 2 years at Amazon. I presented a 12-page proposal to 7 directors proposing to shift the organization from Engineering to UX/Product. Given the leadership team are SDMs, it's a long shot at the moon. I
Design
Let's define what it means when we say design is not good? 1. When the users of the design say, it's not good. (Obvious? 😳) 2. When after you've explained the rationale, the audience doesn't understand. 3. When you turn in incomplete designs,
Promotion
If you attended my session on Developing a Career Strategy on ADP last Saturday, thank you. It was a great turnout. I learned a lot from the questions; they gave me ideas for iterating upon my content. A nice bonus was making new connections, even with people who couldn'