The act of a leader is to take the next best action.When you’re struggling with a challenge to your identity, it’s normal to feel like your whole self needs to react. There is a small part of your sel...

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There’s a hidden hope behind a lot of people’s purchases. They might not tell you up front, or ever, but when people buy your thing, they might want status.It’s tempting to think that a product serves...

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If a person is going to be needed when the AI machine does the work, then here are some of the hard edges.A hard edge, to start, means this: it will tend to be there, no matter the choice of AI or the...

Important Note: Although I work at Apple in the password management and app/website authentication spaces, in this post I am speaking only for myself, personally. There is no “news” in this post or any kind of “inside scoop”. Please do share this post, but if I see “Apple’s Ricky Mondello” anywhere, I’ll be sad. My [...]

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“I’ve never come this far before.”You’ve been trying to punch through a personal limit. There’s been a wall that kept you on this side of a change, and you’ve been trying your best to tear it down, to...

A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.

If the constraints you have aren’t helping you, you need better ones.The people around you. The amount of time in your day. The tools you use to do your work. Your physical working space. The number o...

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Make a sale, start a fire. In both cases, you’re looking for the conditions to be just right for things to start happening, for things to catch on and spread. You can throw things together and hope fo...

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