On building of All Trades

Stories that resonate are the ones that sit with the stories we already believe and value.

Seth Godin • Decoding ‘story’

If you remain flexible – even in the places where you really do think you got it right – and give yourself the chance to be proven incorrect, you’re setting yourself and your company up for success.

The Not So Cookie-Cutter Approach to Company Building — 8 Lessons from Zapier

The future of work is flexible - teams need partners that are flexible and and allow for flexibility in their work structures.

Management systems have been designed to provide reliability and efficiency, not adaptability and agility. Many of the tools and practices of modern management are geared towards solving problems and eliminating deviations in processes, behaviors, and practices. Because of this framework, management training and leadership development is often... See more

Kotter • Why Change Capability Is The Most Important Missing Competency For Today’s Leaders

The problem you solve for customers is increasingly one they can’t even articulate for themselves . The ones that are easy to understand have already been built and funded over the last 20 years. Building something of true excellence will require a hungrier engagement with the world

Evan Armstrong • Want to Build? Technical Excellence Won’t Be Enough.

Learning to thrive in a resilient culture is essential. Being indoctrinated into a rigid and fragile mindset is not.

Manipulation, indoctrination and addiction

So much of building something new is showing others that their problem deserves to be solved, that they should be seen for who they are and what they want to be. Generalists deserve better.

When there’s high fit on a team, there’s high trust, and with that trust comes the ability to make decisions quickly.

Navigating New Waters: 10 Tips for First-Time Founder Success

intentions are just as powerful as goals, if not more so. While a goal is a specific target, a clear destination on the horizon, an intention serves as a guiding light, softly illuminating our path as we move through time and space. Goals can sometimes make us feel like we're wearing blinders, zeroed in on a singular endpoint, which can lead to... See more

What Matters Most?

“If done well, from a perspective of making everyone feel safe to share, to give themselves permission to fail or to not be perfect, virtual can potentially even nudge out face-to-face