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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:
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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
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: What You Do When You Really Want the Gig
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.
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
May 2014
26:
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Apr 2014
4:
The Year Without Pants
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
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
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
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
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:
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