What if graduation wasn’t the end of your relationship with a university? Imagine a place you return to throughout your life. Maybe to learn something new, change direction, share what you’ve discovered, or help someone…
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Identity Friction
You’ve put in the work to understand your professional identity. You know what you’re good at and where you create value. You can articulate what you do, what you don’t do, and what makes you…
Designing Work
When you have a tool that can reason, analyze, synthesize, generate ideas, and automate tasks, it’s tempting to point it at a problem and start redesigning things. I see this happening with work. There’s a…
Remember When
Remember when… …people used to send emails? …we carried phones around in our pockets? …people asked phones and computers for advice instead of other people? …colleges were places you went to get an education? …people…
The Less Capable Workplace
We can make work more efficient on paper while making the organization less capable in practice. In A City Is Not a Tree (1965), Christopher Alexander argued that living cities depend on overlapping systems that…
What Your Title Does in Thirty Seconds
Titles are low friction, and they give people a place to put you. They answer three questions at once: what you do, who you work for, and roughly where you sit in the pecking order….