7-40 Challenge | Planning Week I caught myself saying something today that stopped me mid-sentence. I was talking about my work, and I heard myself say I don't just get to solve problems — I get to take care of people while I do it. I sat with that, because it explained something I'd never … Continue reading The Spirit of the Thing
Category: Work & Data
The Answer Has Been Staring Me in the Face
7-40 Challenge | Planning Week Zig Ziglar said it decades ago: "You can have everything in life you want, if you just help enough other people get what they want." I've read that quote a dozen times over the years. Tonight it finally landed, because it answers the exact thing I've been stuck on for … Continue reading The Answer Has Been Staring Me in the Face
One Operating System
7-40 Challenge | Planning Week For many years I've run my work life on a system. At my day job, everything moves through a board — projects broken into tasks, tasks with deadlines and clear definitions of done, a daily rhythm of picking up what's most urgent and moving it forward. I don't think about … Continue reading One Operating System
Less Famous, More Trusted
7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 34 Seth Godin dropped nineteen points about marketing in the age of AI. Three of them stopped me cold. "Stop trying to be famous. The goal is not to get more famous. The goal is to get less famous and more trusted." I've spent most of this year building … Continue reading Less Famous, More Trusted
Data Is Communication
7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 26 I had a conversation today that connected twenty years of my career to the thing everyone's trying to figure out right now. I work in data management. I've spent two decades as the person who sits between business teams and technical teams, translating what one side needs into … Continue reading Data Is Communication
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