Engineering an Interesting Life
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Q3 2025
I like the idea of doing a quarterly review of my annual theme, as a way to reset, re-evaluate, figure out what I want to change and celebrate what I did actually accomplish. I set my intention for the year as “health”, and in Q3 I tried to keep up momentum from Q2 whilst also…
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Book: The Next Day
I was listening to the first episode of the “Welcome to the Party” podcast, when Melinda French Gates was mentioned, and all three sports icons (Abby Wambach, Julie Foudy, and Billie Jean King) took the opportunity to gush about her and her work. So I bought the new book – The Next Day: Transitions, Change,…
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Getting More Strategic
Strategy – how to be strategic, and how to be seen as strategic – is one of my ongoing obsessions. Years ago, I read Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, and it’s guided my thinking ever since. One of the things that book helps clarify is that being strategic and being seen as strategic can work against each…
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Podcast: The Confident Commit on Strategic Career Decisions
I had a great time recording this episode of the confident commit, and you can listen to it on Spotify or Apple Podcasts. Things we covered:
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How I’ve Been Using AI
I feel like the whole AI conversation is dominated by two extremes. Those who believe in AGI, and AI skeptics. I’m trying to approach it as a tool that may or may not be useful. Here are some things I’ve found so far. Useful as an editing partner. For things where I have a clear…
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Q2 2025
I like the idea of doing a quarterly review of my annual theme, as a way to reset, re-evaluate, figure out what I want to change and celebrate what I did actually accomplish. I set my intention for the year as “health”,and after a rough start in Q1, Q2 was when I tried to come…
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Book: Decisive
The overall thesis of Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath is that you make better decisions when you use a process called “WRAP”. It’s a really interesting book, I got a lot out of reading it. Some stuff that’s like, oh that does work, and some stuff that gave me a new perspective and caused…
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Working From Home: How To Set Boundaries With Yourself
I was recently interviewed for an article about remote work, you can read the full thing here. Some of my suggestions:
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Book: Careless People
Facebook tried to shut it down, so obviously like so many others I had to read it! Careless People covers the period of 2011-2017, the author pitches a job to Facebook working in policy, and was there from the inception of Facebook getting involved with governments. It’s a well written, engaging story. The author knows…