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May 2022
22:
103: Designing Ritual
May 2022
14:
102: How to Facilitate a Great Workshop
May 2022
07:
101: Hobbies > Side Hustles
May 2022
01:
100: Triple Digits
April 2022
16:
099: Eulogy Virtues
April 2022
09:
098: Our Voice
April 2022
02:
097: High Stakes
March 2022
26:
096: Dealing with Anger
March 2022
18:
095: My Journey into Resilience
March 2022
13:
094: Sacred Words
March 2022
05:
093: The Role of Fear
February 2022
26:
092: Forever War, Forever Peace
February 2022
19:
091: Mindful Metaphors
February 2022
12:
090: Perfectly Designed Systems
February 2022
05:
089: More Meaning, Not Less Work
January 2022
29:
088: The Happiness Graph
January 2022
22:
087: Living Recklessly
January 2022
15:
086: Embracing Uselessness
January 2022
08:
085: New Year’s Edition
January 2022
04:
Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen
December 2021
27:
084: 13 Resilience Lessons From 2021
December 2021
18:
083—What's one thing you're proud of doing this year?
December 2021
11:
082—Why does software change so fast?
December 2021
04:
081: Sources of meaning
November 2021
27:
080—Unpacking "Traditional Masculinity" and How It Relates to Resilience
November 2021
20:
079: The Story of How I Switched to Ghost
November 2021
20:
Switching to Ghost: Why and How I Did It
November 2021
13:
078: Why Does Tech Seem to Burn People Out So Quickly?
November 2021
07:
077: Why External Benchmarks are Flawed & Evolution Breeds Inefficiency
October 2021
30:
076: How an Ex-Stanford Dean Learned to Embrace Her Child's Struggle
October 2021
23:
075: How to Ask for Help (According to Science)
October 2021
16:
074: The Magic of Async Video Communication
October 2021
12:
Startups As Chemical Reactions
October 2021
12:
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
October 2021
09:
073: How to Make Eng Oncall (and Your Life) Suck Less
October 2021
02:
072: Lessons from a Failed War
September 2021
26:
071: The Cost of Obsession
September 2021
19:
070: Three Metaphors for Productivity
September 2021
12:
069: Advising a startup founder facing a mental health challenge within her team
September 2021
06:
Scotch & Bean 025 - Office Perk
September 2021
04:
068: How Music Gets You in the Zone (+ A Call for Questions!)
August 2021
29:
067: How Not to Die in the Wild
August 2021
22:
066: How Masculine Ideals Affect Resilience
August 2021
14:
065: Massive, Aspirational, and Public Goals
August 2021
08:
064: The Lost Art of Speaking to Strangers
July 2021
31:
063: The Resilience of Simone & Suni
July 2021
24:
062: Drivers of Asian Hate
July 2021
18:
061: A Healthy Breakdown of Order
July 2021
10:
060: Brett Kavanaugh's Resilience (Or Lack Thereof)
July 2021
04:
059: INFRA - Mapping the impact of change
June 2021
26:
058: Sometimes You Gotta Punch Back
June 2021
19:
057: Good Advice from Kevin Kelly on Handling the Unexpected
June 2021
12:
056: A Structure to Present Strategy to Leadership
June 2021
06:
055: The Resilience Rules Framework
May 2021
29:
54: Lessons Learned at 35
May 2021
27:
35
May 2021
22:
053: The Document Arms Race Intensifies
May 2021
15:
052: We Should Copy More
May 2021
09:
051: Every knowledge worker should create content
May 2021
01:
050: One Year In
April 2021
24:
49: Finding Your Edge
April 2021
17:
048: The Dangers of Returning from Isolation
April 2021
10:
047: The Wisdom of Deb Liu
April 2021
06:
Five / Five
April 2021
03:
046: What was your Internet like?
March 2021
27:
045: 🧠 Bill G’s MasterClass on Framing Climate Change
March 2021
21:
044: 🖼 With Softness and Power
March 2021
14:
043: 🖼 Dashboard Envy
March 2021
06:
042: 🧠 How Near Misses and Failures Lead to Success
February 2021
27:
041: 🧠 MAYA (Most Advanced Yet Acceptable)
February 2021
20:
040: 🧠 The Fortress Tim Built
February 2021
13:
039: 🧠 The Story of Sidra's Startup
February 2021
06:
038: 🖼 The Big Trouble Trifecta
January 2021
30:
037: 🧠 Technology’s Side Effects
January 2021
23:
MC#036: Raise this wounded world
January 2021
16:
#035: How the Pandemic Hurt Restaurants
January 2021
16:
Resilience Isn’t Who You Are, It’s What You Do
January 2021
09:
MC#034: Leadership in Turbulent Times
December 2020
19:
MC#033: The Social Science Theory that Explains Both Anti-Maskers & Racial Justice Protests
December 2020
13:
MC#032: Keep the Flame Alive
December 2020
06:
#031: Winning Teams
December 2020
06:
Two Feelings You Need Before Starting a Startup
November 2020
28:
#030: Planning (Theory vs Practice)
November 2020
21:
#029: Personal Best
November 2020
14:
MC#028: Escaping Short Term Thinking
November 2020
07:
MC#027: Counting
October 2020
31:
MC#026: It's a Fine Line
October 2020
24:
MC#025: Reorgs
October 2020
17:
MC#024: A Taxonomy of Visual Diagrams
October 2020
11:
What I Learned from My First (Blunder-Filled) Marathon
October 2020
10:
MC#023: Effort Vs Impact
October 2020
03:
MC#022: The Docs Edition
September 2020
26:
MC#21: The Three Skills of Resilience
September 2020
19:
MC#020: The Sweat Edition
September 2020
12:
MC#019: The Mindfulness Edition
September 2020
05:
MC#018: ...and this is my MasterClass
August 2020
29:
MC#017: Tradeoffs
August 2020
24:
The Difference Between a Prototype and a Demo
August 2020
22:
MC#016: Fidelity vs. Functionality
August 2020
18:
Midgame’s Next Chapter
August 2020
15:
MC#015: Brains Are Weird
August 2020
08:
MC#014: Our Spreadsheet Overlords
August 2020
01:
MC#013: Breaking Rules, Breaking Stereotypes
July 2020
25:
MC#012: The Humor Edition
July 2020
18:
MC#011: The Gymnastics Edition
July 2020
11:
MC#010: Seeking a Benign Violator
July 2020
04:
MC#009: Decade of Insights
June 2020
29:
How Tech Workers are Finding Their Footing in a Pandemic
June 2020
27:
MC#008: Not So Secret Memo
June 2020
20:
MC#007: The Infant Mindset
June 2020
20:
My Pandemic Burnout Piece in Fast Company
June 2020
13:
On Protests and Movements
June 2020
13:
MC#006: The Exponential
June 2020
07:
MC#005: Protest Edition
May 2020
30:
Making Connections #004 | What opportunity looks like, learning by shipping & the arc of social progress
May 2020
23:
Making Connections #003
May 2020
16:
Making Connections #002 (purpose, iteration, social games, + more)
May 2020
11:
The Product Genius Behind Jackbox Games
May 2020
09:
Making Connections #001
May 2020
09:
Making Connections #001 (audio)
May 2020
02:
Welcome to Making Connections
April 2020
12:
How to Become More Adaptable
April 2020
04:
What's Going to Change
March 2020
14:
Captain's Log
March 2020
09:
Finding Your Edge
February 2020
21:
Adaptability is No Joke
February 2020
05:
Recharging is for batteries, not people
January 2020
01:
Solve for the Harder Problem [Interview with Bilal Mahmood]
December 2019
14:
What We Should Learn from the Away Scandal
December 2019
11:
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
August 2019
26:
Community means friendship
July 2019
28:
Techstars Alexa
July 2019
03:
Conflict Isn't Always Bad
July 2019
01:
Lessons on Persistence from Dean Karnazes
June 2019
17:
My Op-Ed in Vox
June 2019
14:
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June 2019
07:
Starting Over
June 2019
02:
Professional Athletes Don't Train 70 Hours a Week and Neither Should You
June 2018
06:
How to Facilitate
June 2018
01:
32
February 2018
25:
Introducing Headlight
July 2017
28:
The Fuzzy and the Techie
July 2017
26:
Goodbye Etsy, Hello World
June 2017
07:
31
January 2017
11:
Ridejoy: Lessons Learned
September 2016
28:
Remote: Office Not Required
September 2016
24:
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
August 2016
25:
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
August 2016
17:
An Open Letter to Managers of Women
July 2016
20:
Product Insights from Pokémon GO
July 2016
11:
What the Black Lives Matter Movement Means to Me
June 2016
15:
Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule
May 2016
31:
30
May 2016
24:
The New Napster
January 2016
30:
What Makes Effective Problem-Solving Teams
January 2016
24:
Readership Survey
January 2016
12:
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else
January 2016
05:
Learning from Volkswagen
December 2015
22:
The Biggest Challenge With Building Products is Uncertainty
November 2015
17:
The 10x Job Application: What You Do When You Really Want the Gig
October 2015
29:
The Rise and Fall of Product Lines
October 2015
03:
First Impressions at Etsy
September 2015
24:
Don’t Call it That: A Naming Workbook
September 2015
24:
The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age
September 2015
24:
The Value in Ongoing Conversations
August 2015
30:
Six Blistering Bodyweight Workouts You Can Do in Under 30 Mins
August 2015
26:
Goodbye Percolate, Hello Etsy
August 2015
02:
The Extraordinary Power of Self-Reflection
July 2015
31:
Why Being Real Matters
July 2015
28:
The Little Book of Talent
June 2015
15:
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February 2015
28:
The Success Equation, Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing.
November 2014
24:
Zero to One: Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future
November 2014
16:
Three Days with MaGIC
September 2014
28:
How Google Works
September 2014
24:
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
September 2014
24:
How to Make Sense of Any Mess
May 2014
26:
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April 2014
05:
The Year Without Pants
March 2014
15:
The Minimum Viable Transaction
March 2014
04:
Training Makes it Possible
February 2014
20:
Product Design for the Web: Principles of Designing and Releasing Products for the Web (+ Author Interview)
February 2014
20:
Product Design for the Web: Principles of Designing and Releasing Products for the Web
January 2014
11:
One Woman’s Incredible Startup Journey in Peru
December 2013
07:
17 Essential Best Practices for Making Things Happen
October 2013
02:
Training to Dunk
September 2013
24:
The Elements of Content Strategy
September 2013
13:
Sarah Allen’s Little Rules For Working Life
August 2013
12:
My Experience with Toastmasters
June 2013
04:
27
May 2013
28:
Why Practice Actually Makes Perfect
April 2013
24:
Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial
April 2013
09:
There's Nothing to Complain About
February 2013
04:
Learning to Code with Treehouse
January 2013
27:
Why Learning to Code Matters to Me
November 2012
20:
I’d Rather Be Prolific than Perfect
November 2012
05:
Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Life Decisions
October 2012
03:
Crafting the Ridejoy Mobile App
September 2012
30:
Good Strategy / Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why it Matters
July 2012
18:
Earning Co-Founder Trust
July 2012
04:
Listen to everyone, then make up your own mind
May 2012
21:
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May 2012
12:
A Request (and Giveaway!) for My Twenty-Sixth Birthday
May 2012
12:
A Request (and Giveaway!) for My Twenty-Sixth Birthday
May 2012
12:
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May 2012
08:
Eleven Compelling Startup Pitch Archetypes
April 2012
05:
Gymnastics Lessons: Performing Under Pressure
January 2012
19:
How to be Relentlessly Resourceful
December 2011
22:
Great By Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite it All
September 2011
30:
How to Give Your Product Personality
June 2011
29:
Getting Your Groove Back
June 2011
07:
Taking Cold Showers
March 2011
29:
What Gymnastics Taught Me About Facing Fear
March 2011
16:
What Gymnastics Taught Me About Acquiring and Mastering Skills
January 2011
19:
How I Blew Out My Knee and Came Back to Win a National Championship
February 2008
27:
The Dip
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