(image source)I am pretty good at faking it. People that don’t know me well are often shocked when I admit I am an introvert. I am pretty good at pretending to be an extrovert. However, I still have a ton of social anxiety. I have a hard time with silence so I will talk too [...]
I am lazy. If there is a shortcut I will take it. I love feeling accomplished, but I don’t always love the hard work it takes to get there. And my inertia used to be a big hurdle, but over the years I transformed into a high bandwidth, entrepreneur (aka doing the work of [...]
Hello! I have 2 orders of business. Better One on Ones If you haven’t checked it out yet, we released a new (free) tool to help you with one on one meetings.It is very simple – each week it emails you (the team lead) and your team 2 questions to use in your meeting. I [...]
You are amazing. But you don’t have to take my word for it. In fact, eventually, you are going to have to believe it with every fiber of your being. Why? Because it is true. You have a superpower, and it is possible you have even more than one. The trick is to hone in [...]
[ this post is the third part of the difficult people series, if you missed the first 2, check out the one on dealing with a bad boss, and the one on handling pesky peers that don’t work for you ] One of the hardest parts of any job is working with difficult people. No [...]
One of the hardest parts of any job is working with difficult people. No matter how much we wish they would just change and make our lives easier, that’s just not the most effective strategy for getting things done in the face of a difficult coworker. Last time, we tackled handling a bad boss. This [...]
One of the hardest parts of any job is working with difficult people. No matter what your assignment, if there are other people who make it hard for you to get your work done or who make you feel unhappy, unsupported, or misunderstood while you’re doing your work, it can turn going to the office [...]
This is a post I have been thinking about for a long time, but didn’t have the balls [figuratively of course] to write until now (more on why below). If you are running an engineering organization of 5 or more people, and your product is launched, you shouldn’t be writing code. Trust me. I learned [...]
I set out to do my startup at the end of January. I had worked in startups the last 6+ years so you think I would know what it takes. But transitioning from a work-for-someone-else job to a 2-person startup has been a difficult one. I used to spend most of my days in [...]
Meetings suck – my tips to make your meetings better (or at least less worse) [not sure that sentence even makes sense, but I liked the ring of it] I hate meetings. I wish I didn’t talk as much as I did. I waste too much time. And these are all things I [...]