Whenever you make a sensitive decision that impacts many folks, state the decision in a group setting and share a written artifact. When you need to again share that message, reuse the same document and, even though you — like me — will feel like a robot, restate the message…

I spent the morning sending slacks/emails/texts/zoomchats and, between correspondences, emptying my stomach in the bathroom. At 3pm, I ate half of a peanut butter banana sandwich and downed a liter of regular water and a liter of electrolytes. At 3:37pm, we began our journey. Named for a group of escaped…

As a product manager, I like to start every project with a premortem. A premortem is an exercise done to figure out how a project can fail and to work backward to ensure those failures don’t happen. This is the best way I know to set up a project for…

I recently moved to Mammoth Lakes and one Saturday afternoon, we climbed Crystal Crag (North Arete). The approach is a couple miles hike. We started by Lake George, took the ridge line, landed at Crystal Lake and then hiked up a small hill covered in crystal chunks. At the bottom…

My first job out of college was working as a software engineer at a HealthTech startup. I learned how websites worked, what “PR” meant, what “PM” meant, and how to work with these “PM”s and designers. …

These are initial takeaways from the Derek Chauvin trial in chronological order: Jury selection What first stood out to me during the trial was jury selection. Each potential jury member filled out this 60+ question survey. …

The Midnight Library follows Nora Seed as first her cat dies on the road, then she loses her job, then she commits suicide, and then she lands in a library. The library is a magical place where she can choose any book and transport to another life in a parallel…

Red Cone It took 30 minutes and a lemon luna bar to get a parking spot. During that time, we learned tales of the Simba, Cookie and a 10 ft fur tree in an Outback’s trunk. Once mounted, we started skinning up next to a nordic track, where snow cats whizzed by…

It started with a three-day weekend, ski resorts at max capacity, COVID-19, and a brand new pair of boots. To get away from the crowds, we decided on snowshoeing and snow camping. We parked off the shoulder of 89 near “Big Meadow Tahoe Rim Trail Trailhead”. …