Leadership articles
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Good soldiers find wars - Career Advice for those Worried about AI
There are a lot of people still processing how LLMs are going to affect the future of work and generally the sentiment I am getting is somewhat negative. People are worried about their jobs - which I totally get
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Everyone has a boss
I had always expected to be an Entrepreneur. As an American, we are born into a world where your safety and health depends on having deep pockets when (*not if*) an emergency occurs.
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Take care of yourself first
Life's most important moments, the ones who shape us and determine our success or failure by our own definitions largely occur when individuals are under pressure and stress
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Best Practices are Dead. Long Live Best Practices.
Went down a rabbithole on the old web and I learned that 'Bloodletting' was a common medical procedure for the better part of 3000 years. I'm kind of spellbound by the duration- it was one hell of a lindy effect. Our first evidence of its use appeared in Egypt...
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5 Marbles
Did a corporate dinner with the team in Monterrey last year and it was a pretty standard event till about 3/4 through. Two of our executives were having a conversation and inadvertently drew the attention of the rest of of the group. Our CTO decided to open up to everyone what they were discussing and it turned out to be a nice little nugget of wisdom...
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Better Corporate Communication
Communication can be made more or less effective by working with or against Human biological limitations. To put it another way, the way you organize and provide your information can increase your throughput, retention, and utility of the information you are providing. Here are some strategies...
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The 5% Rule
...I learned a lot from that period, but one of the things I learned that I did not expect was what I now call my '5% rule.' No matter how kind, warm, thoughtful, amazing, cheerful, consistent, and perfect I treated people roughly 5% of them would just be terrible (yes, I have the numbers to back this)...
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An Interview with Zach Wade Betz
Zach Wade Betz is a blogger and runs the personal blog zwbetz.com. In a change of pace for my blog I thought I would interview Zach and get his thoughts on writing, development, life, and more.
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Thunderstorms, Margaritas
Two stories about decision making. Two different times, Two different places. Americans then and Americans now. Oh, and margaritas.
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Stop Breaking My Glasses
I worked at a tap house in college serving and bartending. It was a great job and I learned a lot of life lessons from the place. At one point, the management team made a decision to bring in 23oz glasses that we could sell as an upcharge to customers...
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The Lowest Common Denominator
From ~2009 to 2013 I talked to somewhere in the realm of ~13,000 to ~15,000 different people. I found that the concept of the lowest common denominator in human interaction is wrong... People aren't dumb...
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4000 years
My favorite Professor at KU, John Younger, was at Duke for about 25 years before coming to KU. He was their expert in classical studies (Greece, Rome, etc) and was considered a world expert. He left when they gave him a little clock...