You Make Music
A metaphor for consultants, advisors, and other forms of being me-as-a-service.
Start Doing the Work
The best way to win consulting clients isn’t a pitch — it's when you start doing the work first and discover the engagement’s shape together.
Meetings are products
We don't think about meetings as something that needs to be designed at all. That's the real problem.
Be Romantic
Why the most important work comes from people who care about things nobody asked them to care about.
11 Months at the Triangle Factory
Over the last eleven months at Vercel, I've been playing three overlapping roles: Chief of Staff, leading ShipOps, and Forward-Deployed Executive. This is what I've learned about why care, not process, is the real operating system.
A Portfolio of Play
I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. But that’s the wrong question to ask.
30 Days at the Triangle Factory
A brief reflection on my first month-ish at Vercel as Chief of Staff for Product & Engineering.
Yet Another Year in Review - Year 04.5
I’ve now been working for myself longer than I’ve had any other job.
May 2024 marked 4 years and it felt a bit surreal, not because I didn’t think that I would get here, but because being here has felt so gratifying.
Introduce Your Friends
For those of us in good orbits, perhaps the most valuable thing we can do is alter gravity in such a way that creates more collisions.
Yet Another Year in Review - Year 03.5
My annual-ish personal review for professional activities. It’s something I write for myself, to be shared.
Exchange Rates
Effective prioritization requires establishing exchange rates between the different currencies within an organization.
Computational Photography
Brief thoughts on computational photography and the Spectre app.
Researchers as Founders
My response to Harri Thomas’ question “why aren’t more researchers founders?”
