Things are Going to Get Tough Instead of writing a post about the upcoming (or already here)”recession,” I thought I would go a bit broader and talk about how to navigate the lean years. Businesses of all sorts go into…
In the end, your success or failure is a combination of what you control (your decision making) and what you don’t (timing). Most people aren’t really great at decision making. But that’s something you can get better at. So let’s…
The Trend of Quiet Quitting You’ve likely heard of quiet quitting – the dynamic where people don’t actually leave your company. Instead, they simply stop working as hard. They skate. They put in the absolutely minimum amount of work to…
There are two things I know about pruning. Now, you should know that I actually shouldn’t use the word “know” as if I’m a master gardener. I’m not. It’s probably more accurate to say that I read this on Wikipedia…
Not Everyone Knows How To Work With You When you’re adding new people to your team, they’re stepping into a team dynamic and starting to work with a bunch of people they have no history with. In other words, they…
A Guy Walks into a Fast-Food Joint… Sometime in the early 1990’s I walked into a fast-food restaurant (Taco Bell) to see an ordering kiosk. This is long before we saw these kinds of touchscreens in fast-food chains (Taco Bell,…
A couple of years ago, a group of us decided to co-work together in San Diego – a house on the beach. It was an idea my friend Justin created, called BeachPress. We rented a house with tons of rooms,…
Life is a Series of Choices The last job I had before graduating from college was at the fourth largest YMCA in the country. After I graduated, I went to work full time at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, a government-funded research…