Key Takeaways"If there's a doubt, there's no doubt." A co-founder is one of the top three most consequential decisions you'll ever make — and your most expensive…

Recently an Amazon executive revealed that she had rejected a candidate who showed up to an interview in a T-Shirt that said “I’m too Hot for a Job”. This caused a lot of noise on…

An earlier version of this article appeared May 8, 2024 One of my Twelve Commandments is “Lighten up,” and I have a lot of resolutions aimed at trying to be a more lighthearted parent: less nagging,…

Your luck surface area is the amount of serendipity that will occur in your life. Luck = Doing * Telling Expertise is valuable and is created by doing with passion. Passion excites like-minded peopl

Last month, I posted pictures of my setup on Reddit, and it got decent upvotes and comments. After that, the folks at Maker Stations asked if they could showcase my setup on their site, and I agreed!…

So I survived. I am back. :) When I first decided to pay for Bear I was trying to post once a day. Last week was so crazy busy at work I had to take a hiatus. The week at work went well and I had a…

Up early, breakfast, quick mail chew. Trains home, plugged away at some work on the train. Published the next strip: an interview with Cynthia, a seeker of administrative excellence Sync with…

Some of you already know this from my pinned posts on Facebook and Instagram, but I wanted to write a quick piece for anyone not on social media, who might be wondering why I haven’t posted for…

$1,300 for Blogr💰 Congrats to Serg for making his first $1k from Blogr. It looks like a really cool tool for getting recommendations for your SEO from Google Search Console.

What Your Organization Sees When You Go Quiet A few weeks ago, I was talking with Pawe?, someone I’ve been mentoring as he works toward a director role. He’s doing a lot of things right: growing his…

This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no profanity, no sales pitches, no trolling, no…

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. — Tennessee Williams AnneMarie has always wanted to have a lemonade stand. Last year, during ClueCon, she (and Mama) visited her cousin up…

A black mug, never used in 22 years, outlives the park whose name it still carries. A coincidence, a moment of weightlessness, and the quiet pleasure of feeling lighter.

Can you imagine kids flying out the door after school, going to a field or playground and put together a pick-game? Probably not. But I know some of you readers did this as kids. But today, it seems…

Life has been a little hectic lately. I've been spending most of my time finding someone to take over my apartment, packing, and getting ready for my move back to the Boston area. I'm excited to…

Hey friends, Chase here Jeff Boyd is on the show today, and this conversation is about building the kind of life and business that does not always look like the predominant story on the internet.…

With the end of June, my time of hospitalization leave comes to an end. I'm sad to leave behind languid days of space to choose what I want to do. However, being still gave me an opportunity to turn…

I believe most people who are somewhat interested in fashion and beauty are aware that being thin is making a comeback, but of course it never really went out of style. And if you've noticed the…

Life has been a bit full lately. Water trouble, basement trouble, ants in the wall. The usual glamorous stuff. So I took the camera around the house for a moment...

what a game am i right guys(so like i do actually have a paper due friday but uhhh -candycane)(also i have a morning class tomorrow (since im writing this on the 23rd) but after that im gonna be…

So it's a heatwave, and unfortunately, I didn't really get a chance to sit down and really write anything this week. The schools are closed because of the heat. We don't have snow days here; we have…

Got a moisture meter for the potted plants. The dial that goes dry • moist • wet is slightly funny. I suppose there’s a more expensive version that includes damp. The instructions are clear that the…

Candy sweet on the stick - rose scented Turkish delight. The name, Ishwari , refers to the Hindu goddess Mahadevi , and suggests feminine energy, so the intended fragrance would be soft, feminine,…

Here’s a little compilation of posts from the last few years about getting started as a new radiology resident. Transitioning Scan by Scan is an essay about starting in radiology. Doing…

Are you making too many decisions in a day? Are you the escalation point for everything? Do you constantly firefight, struggle to think strategically and instead of being influential and impactful,…

Have you ever thought about how often people talk about "Strategy" when they actually mean planning or tactics? The post The Key Difference Between Planning and Strategy appeared first on CHRISG.com…

The last thing any project needs is to pay for an expensive sycophant. The post Saying ‘No’ is an Under-Valued Skill – Good Ideas Need Friction More Than Ever appeared first on…

One of the easiest ways to make yourself feel bad is to put other people on a pedestal. This happens all the time in tech. We look at this firm or that and assume everyone there must be…

(Uncle) Kumar, a new player in the content creation world as a retired accountant ready to teach the internet finance for free. Real or hype?

When I arrived in Shanghai, I kinda knew that one of the things that I had to adapt to was people leaving the city or returning to their countries. Since all my close friends were international…

↳ “The girl who was supposed to be your girlfriend was taken from you a long time ago, sodomized out of reality. Nothing is going to bring her back.” On the morning of Monday, June 22nd, 2026, a…

This is something I didn't understand until I became a manager, and I wish I had known it at the start of my career. When you proactively follow up with your manager, when you send a quick message…

Hello, it’s me again. Coming at you from the wee hours of the morning. YES YES I KNOW that I owe you a 2025-in-review. And I know that it’s very nearly July, which is the latest one yet. But I have a…

More than anything I miss feeling invisible while out in the world. As in, walking down the street and disappearing into the crowd. It's been more than a decade in this hot, painful country, and I…

I have a keen sense of smell. I smell things that other people apparently can’t. […] The post Where Have All The Good Smelling Men Gone? appeared first on April the Dreamer.

I'm going through changes. One of the heaviest is that I couldn't make love work so I'm mourning the now finished relationship. I'm living in a new apartment and I enjoy being here. Some nights are…

Both my brother and I have fallen into the habit of writing down what we remember of our dreams when we wake up and while not every dream is remembered and not every dream is pleasant and worth…

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Spending the evening with the family at our local semipro football club match. They are tons of fun! #salemcityfc #winstonsalem

[Link to YouTube] I've been thinking a lot about project management for the last 6 months and I'm thinking out loud here, nothing is set in stone. However, me and Lucy are using the concepts…

A friend of mine has been at the same company for eleven years. Three teams, two promotions, one internal transfer he describes as the most interesting year of his career. He's not coasting. He knows…

The one skill that separates the designers who survive 2026, and why design is quietly gaining power while everyone watches AI. Plus masonry in pure CSS, at last.

Each week, I share one insight. One piece of wisdom. One question to reflect on. (and a little Lagniappe) My favorite debugging story comes from Rob Pike when…

Luke and Jonathan discuss the upcoming WordCamp Europe and their mixed feelings about Matt’s latest appeal. Jonathan expresses a dichotomy he’s trying to work through and Luke expresses his…

Here’s a random thought for today: In five years, everyone will be a product manager. And I don’t mean this in the Chef Gusteau “Anyone can cook” sense, but that the typical software product manager…

A little advise if you ever get stuck in writing something for reasons like mine.

I started a company in Germany in late January. By late June I had spent 9,600 euros, registered two companies, and still cannot issue a single invoice of my own. Here is the timeline, with the bill…

I went on a run this morning and got the idea to write this, but Nolen and Robin and Robin again have written other, maybe better versions of it. Still, I have some recent experience and feelings to…

We launched Whip on May 21 and it went viral, around 350,000 views across X and LinkedIn. From the outside it looked like a moment. It was actually a month of quiet, unglamorous work, and this is the…

Just a quick post to recognise a couple of awesome things my kids have done.