Productivity

Multiple teams were stuck in a morass. We were endlessly debating how a product that cut across multiple Product Groups and different apps would work, and it felt like we were trapped in endless debat...

A single word of advice, given to all startups, and to CEOs of large companies, and they in turn to their teams: “Focus!” But what does that mean, precisely? And anyway isn’t quantity sometimes in fac...

Founding a company is a selfish act. It will consume every waking moment for the next 1-10 years. It’s an act of defiance and irreverence towards competitors and the status quo. This matches the life ...

In an all-hands discussion at Austin Texas’s premier startup incubator Capital Factory, one of the founders started a question with a well-worn preamble: “A bunch of mentors told me the same thing abo...

Before my grandfather died, one of the last things he told me was “slow is beautiful.” He had been sober for 30 years when he passed, and during the early stages of my own recovery, he was one of the ...