Archive

Feb 2023

6: 139: Courage is the First Virtue

Jan 2023

29: 138: Effortless Essays

Jan 2023

21: 137: Shapes & Stories

Jan 2023

13: 136: How Humans Still Trump AI

Jan 2023

7: 135: A Self-Paced Annual Review

Dec 2022

31: 134: How We Found Resilience in 2022

Dec 2022

24: 133: Secrets, Extroverts, and Interfaces

Dec 2022

17: 132: Twelve Ways to Practice Resilience After a Layoff

Dec 2022

11: 131: How to Be Human in the Age of Generative AI

Dec 2022

3: 130: Happiness at Work

Nov 2022

26: 129: Layoffs at Meta

Nov 2022

19: 128: Too Genius to Fail

Nov 2022

13: 127: 3 Times I F*cked Up

Nov 2022

5: 126: 🎬 Push-Up & Ponder

Oct 2022

29: 125: The Double Loop Pivot

Oct 2022

22: 124: Restarting Adderall

Oct 2022

15: 123: Microworkouts

Oct 2022

8: 122: Conviction

Oct 2022

2: 121: Reboot your hedonic treadmill

Sep 2022

24: 120: Burned Out Tech CEO → Warehouse Associate

Sep 2022

18: 119: My 12 Hour Walk

Sep 2022

11: 118: Creative Output

Sep 2022

4: 117: Resilience Archetypes

Aug 2022

28: 116: Finding Your Voice

Aug 2022

20: 115: The Hidden Backstory of 5 Startup Pivots That Grew to $43B

Aug 2022

16: 114: A Bittersweet Photo & A Failed Startup Pivot

Aug 2022

6: 113: The Art of Being Mentorable

Jul 2022

31: 112: Rediscovering the Power of Video

Jul 2022

24: 111: Switching Teams at Work

Jul 2022

16: 110: I (Finally) Got Covid

Jul 2022

3: 109: Cut & Run

Jun 2022

28: 108: Righting after a Reorg

Jun 2022

22: 107: My Resilience Mini-Series

Jun 2022

12: 106: Creative Doing

Jun 2022

5: 105: Main Character Energy

May 2022

28: 104: Turning 36

May 2022

22: 103: Designing Ritual

May 2022

14: 102: How to Facilitate a Great Workshop

May 2022

7: 101: Hobbies > Side Hustles

May 2022

1: 100: Triple Digits

Apr 2022

16: 099: Eulogy Virtues

Apr 2022

9: 098: Our Voice

Apr 2022

2: 097: High Stakes

Mar 2022

26: 096: Dealing with Anger

Mar 2022

18: 095: My Journey into Resilience

Mar 2022

12: 094: Sacred Words

Mar 2022

5: 093: The Role of Fear

Feb 2022

26: 092: Forever War, Forever Peace

Feb 2022

19: 091: Mindful Metaphors

Feb 2022

12: 090: Perfectly Designed Systems

Feb 2022

5: 089: More Meaning, Not Less Work

Jan 2022

29: 088: The Happiness Graph

Jan 2022

22: 087: Living Recklessly

Jan 2022

15: 086: Embracing Uselessness

Jan 2022

8: 085: New Year’s Edition

Jan 2022

4: Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen

Dec 2021

27: 084: 13 Resilience Lessons From 2021

Dec 2021

18: 083—What's one thing you're proud of doing this year?

Dec 2021

11: 082—Why does software change so fast?

Dec 2021

4: 081: Sources of meaning

Nov 2021

27: 080—Unpacking "Traditional Masculinity" and How It Relates to Resilience

Nov 2021

20: 079: The Story of How I Switched to Ghost

Nov 2021

20: Switching to Ghost: Why and How I Did It

Nov 2021

13: 078: Why Does Tech Seem to Burn People Out So Quickly?

Nov 2021

7: 077: Why External Benchmarks are Flawed & Evolution Breeds Inefficiency

Oct 2021

30: 076: How an Ex-Stanford Dean Learned to Embrace Her Child's Struggle

Oct 2021

23: 075: How to Ask for Help (According to Science)

Oct 2021

16: 074: The Magic of Async Video Communication

Oct 2021

12: Startups As Chemical Reactions

Oct 2021

11: Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

Oct 2021

9: 073: How to Make Eng Oncall (and Your Life) Suck Less

Oct 2021

2: 072: Lessons from a Failed War

Sep 2021

25: 071: The Cost of Obsession

Sep 2021

18: 070: Three Metaphors for Productivity

Sep 2021

11: 069: Advising a startup founder facing a mental health challenge within her team

Sep 2021

5: Scotch & Bean 025 - Office Perk

Sep 2021

4: 068: How Music Gets You in the Zone (+ A Call for Questions!)

Aug 2021

28: 067: How Not to Die in the Wild

Aug 2021

21: 066: How Masculine Ideals Affect Resilience

Aug 2021

14: 065: Massive, Aspirational, and Public Goals

Aug 2021

8: 064: The Lost Art of Speaking to Strangers

Jul 2021

31: 063: The Resilience of Simone & Suni

Jul 2021

24: 062: Drivers of Asian Hate

Jul 2021

18: 061: A Healthy Breakdown of Order

Jul 2021

10: 060: Brett Kavanaugh's Resilience (Or Lack Thereof)

Jul 2021

3: 059: INFRA - Mapping the impact of change

Jun 2021

26: 058: Sometimes You Gotta Punch Back

Jun 2021

19: 057: Good Advice from Kevin Kelly on Handling the Unexpected

Jun 2021

12: 056: A Structure to Present Strategy to Leadership

Jun 2021

6: 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

8: 051: Every knowledge worker should create content

May 2021

1: 050: One Year In

Apr 2021

24: 49: Finding Your Edge

Apr 2021

17: 048: The Dangers of Returning from Isolation

Apr 2021

10: 047: The Wisdom of Deb Liu

Apr 2021

5: Five / Five

Apr 2021

3: 046: What was your Internet like?

Mar 2021

27: 045: 🧠 Bill G’s MasterClass on Framing Climate Change

Mar 2021

20: 044: 🖼 With Softness and Power

Mar 2021

13: 043: 🖼 Dashboard Envy

Mar 2021

6: 042: 🧠 How Near Misses and Failures Lead to Success

Feb 2021

27: 041: 🧠 MAYA (Most Advanced Yet Acceptable)

Feb 2021

20: 040: 🧠 The Fortress Tim Built

Feb 2021

13: 039: 🧠 The Story of Sidra's Startup

Feb 2021

6: 038: 🖼 The Big Trouble Trifecta

Jan 2021

30: 037: 🧠 Technology’s Side Effects

Jan 2021

23: MC#036: Raise this wounded world

Jan 2021

16: #035: How the Pandemic Hurt Restaurants

Jan 2021

15: Resilience Isn’t Who You Are, It’s What You Do

Jan 2021

9: MC#034: Leadership in Turbulent Times

Dec 2020

19: MC#033: The Social Science Theory that Explains Both Anti-Maskers & Racial Justice Protests

Dec 2020

13: MC#032: Keep the Flame Alive

Dec 2020

6: #031: Winning Teams

Dec 2020

5: Two Feelings You Need Before Starting a Startup

Nov 2020

28: #030: Planning (Theory vs Practice)

Nov 2020

21: #029: Personal Best

Nov 2020

14: MC#028: Escaping Short Term Thinking

Nov 2020

7: MC#027: Counting

Oct 2020

31: MC#026: It's a Fine Line

Oct 2020

24: MC#025: Reorgs

Oct 2020

17: MC#024: A Taxonomy of Visual Diagrams

Oct 2020

10: What I Learned from My First (Blunder-Filled) Marathon

Oct 2020

10: MC#023: Effort Vs Impact

Oct 2020

3: MC#022: The Docs Edition

Sep 2020

26: MC#21: The Three Skills of Resilience

Sep 2020

19: MC#020: The Sweat Edition

Sep 2020

12: MC#019: The Mindfulness Edition

Sep 2020

5: MC#018: ...and this is my MasterClass

Aug 2020

29: MC#017: Tradeoffs

Aug 2020

24: The Difference Between a Prototype and a Demo

Aug 2020

22: MC#016: Fidelity vs. Functionality

Aug 2020

18: Midgame’s Next Chapter

Aug 2020

15: MC#015: Brains Are Weird

Aug 2020

8: MC#014: Our Spreadsheet Overlords

Aug 2020

1: MC#013: Breaking Rules, Breaking Stereotypes

Jul 2020

25: MC#012: The Humor Edition

Jul 2020

18: MC#011: The Gymnastics Edition

Jul 2020

11: MC#010: Seeking a Benign Violator

Jul 2020

4: MC#009: Decade of Insights

Jun 2020

29: How Tech Workers are Finding Their Footing in a Pandemic

Jun 2020

27: MC#008: Not So Secret Memo

Jun 2020

20: MC#007: The Infant Mindset

Jun 2020

20: My Pandemic Burnout Piece in Fast Company

Jun 2020

13: On Protests and Movements

Jun 2020

13: MC#006: The Exponential

Jun 2020

7: 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

9: Making Connections #001

May 2020

8: Making Connections #001 (audio)

May 2020

2: Welcome to Making Connections

Apr 2020

12: How to Become More Adaptable

Apr 2020

4: What's Going to Change

Mar 2020

14: Captain's Log

Mar 2020

9: Finding Your Edge

Feb 2020

21: Adaptability is No Joke

Feb 2020

5: Recharging is for batteries, not people

Dec 2019

31: Solve for the Harder Problem [Interview with Bilal Mahmood]

Dec 2019

14: What We Should Learn from the Away Scandal

Dec 2019

11: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

Aug 2019

25: Community means friendship

Jul 2019

27: Techstars Alexa

Jul 2019

3: Conflict Isn't Always Bad

Jul 2019

1: Lessons on Persistence from Dean Karnazes

Jun 2019

17: My Op-Ed in Vox

Jun 2019

14: 33

Jun 2019

6: Starting Over

Jun 2019

2: Professional Athletes Don't Train 70 Hours a Week and Neither Should You

Jun 2018

6: How to Facilitate

Jun 2018

1: 32

Feb 2018

24: Introducing Headlight

Jul 2017

28: The Fuzzy and the Techie

Jul 2017

26: Goodbye Etsy, Hello World

Jun 2017

7: 31

Jan 2017

11: Ridejoy: Lessons Learned

Sep 2016

28: Remote: Office Not Required

Sep 2016

24: The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

Aug 2016

25: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Aug 2016

17: An Open Letter to Managers of Women

Jul 2016

20: Product Insights from Pokémon GO

Jul 2016

11: What the Black Lives Matter Movement Means to Me

Jun 2016

15: Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule

Jun 2016

1: Delivering My First Keynote Speech

May 2016

31: 30

May 2016

24: The New Napster

Jan 2016

30: What Makes Effective Problem-Solving Teams

Jan 2016

24: Readership Survey

Jan 2016

11: The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else

Jan 2016

4: Learning from Volkswagen

Dec 2015

22: The Biggest Challenge With Building Products is Uncertainty

Nov 2015

16: The 10x Job Application

Oct 2015

28: The Rise and Fall of Product Lines

Oct 2015

2: First Impressions at Etsy

Sep 2015

24: Don’t Call it That: A Naming Workbook

Sep 2015

24: The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age

Sep 2015

24: The Value in Ongoing Conversations

Aug 2015

30: Six Blistering Bodyweight Workouts You Can Do in Under 30 Mins

Aug 2015

26: Goodbye Percolate, Hello Etsy

Aug 2015

1: The Extraordinary Power of Self-Reflection

Jul 2015

31: Why Being Real Matters

Jul 2015

28: The Little Book of Talent

Jun 2015

15: 29

Feb 2015

28: The Success Equation, Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing.

Jan 2015

5: 8 Thoughts from a Techie on SF vs NYC

Nov 2014

24: Zero to One: Notes on Startups or How to Build the Future

Nov 2014

16: Three Days with MaGIC

Sep 2014

28: How Google Works

Sep 2014

24: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Sep 2014

24: How to Make Sense of Any Mess

Sep 2014

5: You Had One Job

May 2014

26: 28

Apr 2014

4: The Year Without Pants

Mar 2014

22: How a Potluck Brunch Led to My New Job at Percolate

Mar 2014

15: The Minimum Viable Transaction

Mar 2014

3: Training Makes it Possible

Feb 2014

20: Product Design for the Web: Principles of Designing and Releasing Products for the Web (+ Author Interview)

Feb 2014

19: Product Design for the Web: Principles of Designing and Releasing Products for the Web

Jan 2014

10: One Woman’s Incredible Startup Journey in Peru

Dec 2013

7: 17 Essential Best Practices for Making Things Happen

Nov 2013

24: Becoming a Free Agent

Oct 2013

1: Training to Dunk

Sep 2013

24: The Elements of Content Strategy

Sep 2013

13: Sarah Allen’s Little Rules For Working Life

Aug 2013

12: My Experience with Toastmasters

Jul 2013

4: A New Adventure: Working at the Smithsonian as a Presidential Innovation Fellow

Jun 2013

4: 27

May 2013

27: Why Practice Actually Makes Perfect

Apr 2013

24: Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial

Apr 2013

8: There's Nothing to Complain About

Feb 2013

4: Learning to Code with Treehouse

Jan 2013

27: Why Learning to Code Matters to Me

Nov 2012

20: I’d Rather Be Prolific than Perfect

Nov 2012

5: Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Life Decisions

Oct 2012

3: Crafting the Ridejoy Mobile App

Sep 2012

29: Good Strategy / Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why it Matters

Aug 2012

1: How Coffee Meetings Power Silicon Valley

Jul 2012

17: Earning Co-Founder Trust

Jul 2012

4: Listen to everyone, then make up your own mind

May 2012

21: 26

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: 26

May 2012

8: Eleven Compelling Startup Pitch Archetypes

Apr 2012

5: Gymnastics Lessons: Performing Under Pressure

Jan 2012

18: How to be Relentlessly Resourceful

Dec 2011

21: Great By Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite it All

Sep 2011

30: How to Give Your Product Personality

Jun 2011

28: Getting Your Groove Back

Jun 2011

7: Taking Cold Showers

Apr 2011

12: How Blogging Can Increase Your Luck Surface Area

Mar 2011

29: What Gymnastics Taught Me About Facing Fear

Mar 2011

15: What Gymnastics Taught Me About Acquiring and Mastering Skills

Jan 2011

19: How I Blew Out My Knee and Came Back to Win a National Championship

Feb 2008

27: The Dip

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