There’s a Voice in Your Head…
Not my normal kind of post, but if you don't dig it, you can delete the email or skip reading it and I'll have another post that I hope is more helpful for you tomorrow. Last night I woke up ...
The Value of Flexible Thinking
Have you heard of the Mann Gulch Fire? In the mountains of Montana there was a wild fire. In those days every fire was put out. Every fire was worked on. So naturally, firefighters were sent to put out the ...
What do you have in place to help protect your customers from themselves?
They were all staring at her. I don't just mean the person directly in front of her that seriously was looking at her with tons of curiosity. I mean people who worked there were peeking out from behind walls to ...
Focus on What You Do Best
What's your one thing? Remember when I told you that success often meant taking a corner in someone's mind? I called it taking a corner. But I didn't exactly tell you how to do it, other than to focus on ...
Everything is hard
I have a daughter in her Junior year in high school. Do you remember that year? If you do, you likely remember that it was the hardest year in high school. It's like every teacher wants to give you tons ...
You are your own worst enemy
I'm writing this letter to my wife, who has wrapped up 27 years as a teacher – first private and public schools, and then homeschooling our kids. She's now thinking about her next chapter. And these words are for her. ...
The Enemy’s Gate is Down
Have you read Ender's Game? Then you know, "The enemy's gate is down." It's a statement about orientation and the need to change it in order to win.
Identify your superpower and learn to leverage it
Have you already discovered your superpower? I was in third or fourth grade when I shocked my parents and got in trouble. I'd had a recent birthday and family had given me money – it might have been the first ...
How do you make decisions?
In business everyone has an opinion I spent more than ten years starting and building software companies. It was such a different time that it barely holds any resemblance to today's environment of startups. But the one thing that hasn't ...
I don’t care about the feature list, I just want less work
This is an opinion. Just an opinion. If you don't want to hear it, come back tomorrow. More product, agency and business advice then. But this is advice I'm starting to give many of the product developers I'm talking to ...