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Reputation is old. Personal brands are new. It is useful to know that they are not the same thing.

Brands are an important tool for building economic moats in business. We look at how this translates to building career moats in an individual career.

Actionable books are books that contain techniques or approaches you may apply to your life. Here's how to read them.

Why it's probably a good idea to keep a list of questions in your head. Also how I find topics to write about.

The best ideas from Seth Godin's The Dip — which is really about why quitting early and often is so important to success.

Can we take ideas from finance and apply them to the rest of our lives? I've been acting as it is. The truth isn't that simple.

Everything I know about learning in novel, ill-structured domains, summarised in one piece.

Believability is a heuristic for practical advice. Here's one surprising way that it can fail.

A few weeks ago, I helped Amplitude head of product education John Cutler extract tacit expertise around diagnosing and improving product organisations. Here's how that went.

It’s impossible to talk about Automattic without talking about remote work. The company is a role model and innovator in this area: It has been entirely remote since 2005, and at 1,700 employees, it has helped prove that a remote workplace culture can succeed at scale. But “remote” has taken on a different meaning than […]

WooCommerce began life as WooThemes, a small design firm that didn’t look very different from the many others that created WordPress themes.

A look at the Zero Trust ecosystem, and how Okta and CrowdStrike are positioning themselves as invaluable partners.

The tech industry has made a full 180-degree turn with regard to open source in the 16 years since Matt Mullenweg founded Automattic, the commercial backer of open source CMS, WordPress.

A deep dive into the architecture of edge networks, and the many benefits and features that now arise.

What is the Secure Access Service Edge? A way to interconnect everything, showing how edge networks have the clear advantage.

It's been a busy 2020 for Cloudflare. Let's dive into their edge compute and Zero Trust moves.

A look at their open-source search platform & search-oriented SaaS services.

Insights from ElasticON 2020 developer conference.

A deep dive into cybersecurity SaaS providers.

A look at the vital Kafka platform from Confluent, who went public in Jun-21.

Snowflake has created the ability to scale upon scale upon scale, and has added new programmability features to enable a whole new breed of data services.

A deep dive into the architecture of edge networks, and the many benefits and features that now arise.

A deep dive into their Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) platform.

A deep dive into their data & analytics cloud platform, and the many use cases it is enabling.

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The world is much more complex than we realise. The Cobra Effect is when an attempted solution results in unintended consequences.

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Have you ever had a teacher who was very smart, but also terrible at actual teaching? An expert who used so much jargon you could not quite follow their explanation? This is called the “curse of knowledge”, a term coined in 1989 by economists Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein, and Martin Weber. It’s a cognitive bias ... Read More

When I was a kid, I used to think I was doing much better at tests when using a particular pencil my sister had gifted me. So I would make sure to use this pen for every test. I have a friend who thinks that city people are generally rude. So when he meets a ... Read More