Book Review: Intimations – 5*
Intimations by Zadie Smith My rating: 5 of 5 stars Without a doubt, the best book I have read this year. There are already a great number of reviews about…
Book Review: Sweat the Technique by Rakim – 4*
Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Creativity from the Lyrical Genius by Rakim My rating: 4 of 5 stars I was lucky to meet Rakim last year and get a signed…
Goodnight Facebook, Goodnight Twitter, Goodnight noises…
Goodnight Twitter, Goodnight Facebook, Goodnight noises It's time to say goodnight to Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and all the other different social media dopamine sites out there. Not because I don't…
Bringing Up Bébé — 3*
Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Pamela Druckerman My rating: 3 of 5 stars I suppose is should write a review of this…
The Favour Bank
I can't exactly remember when it was, but some time in 2000 after I had been living in London for a couple years, I met this American girl named Julie…
Routines and Habits
There are a lot of books in the past few years about creating Habits. I had first understood the value of them from reading Awaken the Giant Within by Tony…
Reference Points
I've been traveling to Seattle often lately to work with one of my Engineering teams. I was warned about the rain and how it would be depressing, but I was…
Stilling my Mind
A few months ago, I woke up one day and realized that even though I had slept for over 8 hours, I was feeling just as exhausted as I was…
Here We Go: Blogging Again
So I figured to start out on this again the way I did almost 15 years to just start sharing my thoughts. I recall sending emails and posting on sites…
Podcast: Practicing Lean When You Aren’t A Startup
Lean Startup Company has been putting out one of my favorite podcasts on product management recently. Thank you Heather McGough for interviewing me for the recent one. It was a lot of fun!…