Notes
Short pieces. One idea each, usually an argument I had with myself first. Most of these started life on LinkedIn.
Five Different Brains
I hired five brains. If only one of them is working, they have failed me — and the one I least want doing the thinking is mine.
There Is No Question #2
Clients don't want the hundred-page leather-bound plan. They ask one question: how am I doing?
The Apology
I was harsh with my team in a meeting I should not have walked into. Then I went back and said so, in front of all of them.
Writing Your Business in Graffiti
The Palm Pilot changed my handwriting without my noticing. We've been doing the same thing to our businesses for decades.
I Work at an AI Startup
Tell me what you do, why it matters and who it's for. Everything else is a pitch deck.
A Larger Trunk on a Lamborghini
Jobs did nothing about the missing keyboard. Not every feature request points toward something better.
Shivling Never Apologized
A mountain I saw from a tent at 13,200 feet, and what it taught me about designing products.
The Banker Who Paid the Bill
He paid a customer's dinner bill on his way out and said nothing. No ask, no business review, nobody keeping score.
First Woman to Do X
Short, old, brown, foreign accent. I've never led with any of it, because none of it is the point.
Walking Crooked
Instead of surgery, people choose a walking stick with the most ornate handle and show off the new tech they bought.
You Can't Argue With Excellence
They gave me the hardest portfolio to see if I would fail. I learned capital markets by reading code.
The longer arguments
When one of these will not fit in three hundred words, it ends up on the Writing page instead.