It’s 8:30 on a Thursday night, in the foothills north of San Diego. I’m sitting with my windows open writing tweets for rebelEducator, when I hear a group of neighborhood boys ride by on their bikes. One of them yells “imagine this, but on motorcycles!” That. That, in one gleeful imaginative childish shout, sums up …
The deeper I get in my career, the more I believe that professional happiness comes from identifying your values and then living by them. The more I let my values become the north star of my career, the happier I become. My personal values (in order of importance): freedom doing work I find meaningful integration …
In 2016, I started a classics book club. We read a number of Greek and Roman works – Sophocles, Aristotle, Plato, Homer, Virgil, to name a few – and met every week to discuss. We had so much fun that, five years later, we still meet on occasion to catch up, talk about life – and …
I’ve been spending time this month reframing how I think about my projects. I kept catching myself shelving projects because they didn’t feel like The One. Good projects. Projects that I’d enjoy building and that I’d learn something from and that people would pay me to use. Because “I don’t want to be a ____” …
The following is the list of books I read in 2020. Some of these were re-reads, and a handful I read more than once. I’ve only added books to the list that I actually finished. I started many more books this year. Some weren’t interesting. Others only had a small section that was relevant. My …
This has been (one of) my motto(s) in 2020: build customer experiences so amazing even your customers who aren’t a good fit end up loving you. I had a call once with a customer who was struggling to use my company’s product. This was an on-the-brink, about-to-cut-ties kind of call — but as we were …