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How I’ve Been Using AI
→: How I’ve Been Using AII 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
→: Q2 2025I 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
→: Book: DecisiveThe 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
→: Working From Home: How To Set Boundaries With YourselfI was recently interviewed for an article about remote work, you can read the full thing here. Some of my suggestions: go deeper DRI Your Career Learn more Your career is yours to shape — or capitalism will shape it for you.
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Book: Careless People
→: Book: Careless PeopleFacebook 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…
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Q1 2025
→: Q1 2025Having set my intention for the year as “health”, Q1 2025 felt a bit like whatever the atheist, gender neutral equivalent is of the saying “Man plans, and God laughs”. I had a good start to January – all set with my intentions and my Trello board – only to get very sick in February…
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Decisions
→: DecisionsRecently, someone asked me for my “Leadership philosophy”. My initial reaction was to panic, but after taking a deep breath and a bit of time to think, I came up with this answer: “My job is to make it easier for people to make good decisions.” What does that mean? Firstly – that my job…
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Book: Backlash
→: Book: BacklashBacklash (Susan Faludi) is a long and not particularly easy read. Written in response to the Reagan administration’s assault on women’s rights (originally published in 1991), it was reissued in 2020 as history repeated itself. Two recurring themes in the book. First, the way that the data did not at all align with what was…
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Questions for the End of a 1:1
→: Questions for the End of a 1:1I have a set of questions I ask in some variation at the end of my 1:1s. What are you taking away?What was most useful to you? These two I got from my coach and I use them both at work and in my own coaching. The concrete questions are useful, but it can also…