Books: My 2019 Year in Review
In past years I have posted about some of the books I read during the previous year. You can read my previous two years here and here.
2019 was… Continue Reading...
AI is Weird
I recently completed the book You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane.… Continue Reading...
Choose Your Axes
The title of the post, “Choose Your Axes”, might make you it’s a post about the currently-popular entertainment of axe-throwing. But this is not about throwing axes. It’s about… Continue Reading...
Jeff Bezos and Choosing: A Story
Here’s a great story, delivered by Jeff Bezos during his commencement address at Princeton in 2010 (video of speech, transcript).
On one particular trip, I was about… Continue Reading...
Why Good Leaders “Plant the Flag”
Sometimes the most powerful concepts are the simplest. Leadership in today’s world is driven by influence and the ability to get people to voluntarily enroll. But how to get people… Continue Reading...
You Can Do It
Seven years ago today I did a very strange thing: I published the first post of this blog. It was a step into the unknown and frankly felt ridiculous. Nobody… Continue Reading...
