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Not long ago, my kids’ school asked me to give a talk to middle school students and their parents about smartphones. I’ve written extensively on ... Read more

“This [drawing] looks good — as close as I’ve ever look to George Clooney.” – Warren Buffett. (Illustration credit: Monica Bevelin) “It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” -W. Somerset Maugham English dramatist & novelist (1874 – 1965) I have long been … Continue reading "Exclusive Warren Buffett – A Few Lessons for Investors and Managers"

The other weekend I had the opportunity to run a 5k with my daughter (10) – her first such race – near Seattle Center in downtown Seattle. She first participated in a 1k kids dash witho…

The concept of broken window theory was introduced by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling in their Atlantic magazine article Broken Windows. The authors argued that visible signs of neglect chang…

30 Maps to Rethink the World

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The 0.1% of thoughts I have

Founder & CEO is a common title, especially in tech. It happens to be my title too. I've come to believe it's an impossible title. You're either CEO, or you're Founder. You can't hold both full-time jobs. And unless your company is probably 100+, CEO isn't really a job anyway. It's more of a role someone needs to play occasionally. The...

Execution is an idea at its highest fidelity

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@manton recently mentioned that he was surprised about the lack of responses to a longer blog post of him. It made him doubt himself or the post. This is my whole blogging life! I’m always doubting myself. Every post I publish on my blog might drown in the deep, dark sea of the internet-void. I rarely get any “engagement” on my writings. I often think about just quitting it. What’s the purpose of writing, if seemingly nobody reads it?

Earlier today, I posted a Quick Link to the 2nd-generation AirPods Pro on Amazon because they were $50 off, a good deal for an ite

Burnout is the result of chronic stress and, at work, that stress tends accumulate around your experiences of workload, values, reward, control, fairness, and community. If any are lacking or out of sync, you may be headed toward exhaustion, cynicism, and the feeling of being ineffective. When taken regularly, this short assessment can help you gauge whether you’re on the path to burnout, and where you should focus your attention to make beneficial changes.

isolation is easy, living is hard

If you’re a founder you’ve probably heard someone say “oh, I’ve seen this idea before - it didn’t work” or “isn’t this just like that other thing that person/company X tried?” As a founder, I heard this dozens of times. It’s likely to come from investors, but you hear it from other founders, potent

Implementing an Andon Cord in an organization takes a continuous improvement roadmap and behavior reinforcement built into the process.

Is churn created by “Failure Demand” impacting how you deliver value?

"In retrospect, I wish I had known more about the hazards and difficulties of [running] a business." -- George McGovern

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The Daily Record in Dunn, NC , has the highest market "penetration rate" in the country -- more than the population of the community it serv...

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In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid hired a market research firm to survey the public on what they wanted in a work of art. Across 11 countries they then set about painting a piece that reflected the results. Each piece was intended to be a unique a colla

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