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12 Apr, 2020
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How to Become More Adaptable
12 Apr
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How to Become More Adaptable →

Republishing my piece from TechCrunch
04 Apr, 2020
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What's Going to Change
04 Apr
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What's Going to Change →

It’s April 4, 2020. I stopped going to the office on March 13, and according my Captain’s Log
14 Mar, 2020
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Captain's Log
14 Mar
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Captain's Log →

I’ve journaled on and off in various formats throughout my life. I kept a paper diary, shifted to a
09 Mar, 2020
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Finding Your Edge
09 Mar
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Finding Your Edge →

I want to talk about product design and positioning as it relates to Elizabeth Warren dropping out of the race.
21 Feb, 2020
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Adaptability is No Joke
21 Feb
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Adaptability is No Joke →

Both Startups and Improv Are About Making Stuff Up on the Fly I recently participated in an “Improv for Entrepreneurs”
05 Feb, 2020
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Recharging is for batteries, not people
05 Feb
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Recharging is for batteries, not people →

Last year, journalist Anne Helen Petersen wrote a widely shared piece in Buzzfeed naming millennials the “Burnout Generation” [https://www.
31 Dec, 2019
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Solve for the Harder Problem [Interview with Bilal Mahmood]
31 Dec
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Solve for the Harder Problem [Interview with Bilal Mahmood] →

ClearBrain CEO Bilal Mahmood shares 7 lessons on building a new analytics category, including why solving the harder technical problem creates a more defensible startup.
14 Dec, 2019
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What We Should Learn from the Away Scandal
14 Dec
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What We Should Learn from the Away Scandal →

The spectacular fallout from a recent investigation into Away, which portrayed the beloved luggage company as a toxic workplace, has
11 Dec, 2019
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
11 Dec
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World →

Why it's ok to be a jack of all trades
25 Aug, 2019
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Community means friendship
25 Aug
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Community means friendship →

Working in tech, you hear the word “community” a lot. When I was starting my career more than a decade
27 Jul, 2019
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Techstars Alexa
27 Jul
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Techstars Alexa →

Midgame [http://www.midgame.gg/] was accepted into The Alexa Accelerator [https://www.techstars.com/programs/alexa-program/], a program
03 Jul, 2019
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03 Jul
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Conflict Isn't Always Bad →

My natural tendency is to avoid conflict. The few times I fought in school, I was caught and punished for
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