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
Category: Work & Data
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
Breaking Parkinson’s Law
7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 18 Parkinson's Law says work expands to fill the time available for its completion. Give yourself two weeks to do something that takes a day, and it'll take two weeks. Not because the work is hard. Because you'll let it. I've been watching myself do this for months. I … Continue reading Breaking Parkinson’s Law
In Search of Soho People
7-40 Challenge | Round 4, Day 11 Malcolm Gladwell opens The Tipping Point with the story of Hush Puppies. A dying shoe brand — almost pulled from production — that exploded into a national trend because a handful of kids in Soho started wearing them. The company didn't cause it. They nearly killed the brand. … Continue reading In Search of Soho People
