Michael Leone
@tapbackin
Employee Experience Director | Workplace Culture Designer | Coaching Culture Champion | Creator of Human-Centered, High-Impact Moments
Michael Leone
tapbackin.com
“How to flirt with your life
The everyday version of that “new crush” feeling
DEC 09, 2025
Flirting, at its core, is simple: it’s subtle allure.
It’s the spark, the teasing, the pull, the lightness, the what if. It’s curiosity mixed with possibility, without any pressure or certainty attached to it.
And you know exactly what it feels like.
When you have
... See more“If you set your goals ridiculously high and its a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success” - James Cameron
Priest and philosopher Desiderius Erasmus reminds us of the power of concentrating on a single target:
"He who chases two hares catches neither."
Source: Adagia
James Clear • 3-2-1: On Taking Lots of Shots, the Power of Concentration, and Savoring the Path to Success
His biggest worry, though, is that we still mostly fail to acknowledge that we live in a roaring attention economy. In other words, we tend to ignore his favorite maxim, from the writer Howard Rheingold: “Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.”
nytimes.com • Opinion | Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age - The New York Times
From Reddit regarding Bear App:
A hybrid Bear workflow for closing mental loops
I’ve been a long-term Bear user and wanted to share this partly because I genuinely love the app as it is. I’m not interested in Bear growing into an everything-tool or adding layers of features. The simplicity is the point for me, and I’d hate to see that diluted.
That
... See moreIn some important ways, a user’s LLM chat history is an extended interview. The social media algorithms learn what you like, but chats can learn how you think.
You should be able to provide an LLM as a job reference, just like you would a coworker, manager, or professor. It can form an opinion and represent you without... See more
John Carmackx.comComing together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success
- Henry Ford
Jeff Matlow • This Week in Leadership: Dec 12, 2024
Quote on the nature of leadership:
"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd" - Islwyn Jeneins
To lead is to have the courage to question the consensus. To carve your own path. To create by your own design.