Why the most important work comes from people who care about things nobody asked them to care about.

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...

A brief reflection on my first month-ish at Vercel as Chief of Staff for Product & Engineering.

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 fel...

I've been fortunate to have dozens of conversations with thoughtful individuals who run some form of a solo practice over the last 5 years. A recurring theme in those conversations is a need for more ...

What work looks like when you’re invited into the mess.

Instant New York Times BestsellerWashington Post BestsellerUSA Today BestsellerIndie Bound BestsellerAuthors Round the South BestsellerMidwest Indie Bestsell...

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.

The full title of this post is "what writing actually looks like." Over the past 24 hours, I've had a few friends send me this article about the tyranny of...

My annual-ish personal review for professional activities. It’s something I write for myself, to be shared.

Full Stack Whatever is a series of conversations with creatives and technologists about the work behind the work.

Soulver is a notepad calculator app for Mac & iPad. It supports currency & unit conversions, dates and times, percentages, time zones, variables and more.

A few lines about Jonny Miller's reflection on sleep and Jerry Colonna's famous question.

I’ve shared previous versions of this idea publicly in a number of forums, including Designers & Geeks (2018), UXRConf (2019) , Good Research (2022), User Research London (2022) , TCV Engage (2022) and PSL’s Growth Shop (2023). It also underpins the User Insights for Product Dec

To shortcut your way to a success.

An unspoken alternative to traditional full-time role.

In front of Raoul Dufy's painting \