Posts by: Death

t > $ We need to get better at moving faster, and faster, and faster. We move too slowly. Launching at 90% and capturing an opportunity is better than waiting for 100% and missing the window. Too many folks are playing Yesteryear’s game. Change: Speed up.

I need to rewire my brain.  I’m obsessing over things that don’t matter. Confusing noise with signal. I don’t need to know everything all the time. In fact, I’m better off not knowing. To much knowledge is a bad thing.  Signals: actual performance. Not hearsay or conjecture or gossip.  If someone tells me something, am…

Been unsure Emotionally compromised Falling out of love for the game Unclear Trapped Surrounded Noise noise noise Frequencies jammed Clarity lost — Not my first, won’t be my last, rodeo.  – Swimming to shoreWhat most aren’t willing to do.  The email came in.Not my first rodeo.Not in a place to fake it.Only one initiate, the singular most amongst all domains: swim to shore.

____: an Excellent ___. How is he doing as a ___? If I don’t hold leadership accountable to higher standards, they lose, I lose, we all lose.I have things that I need, but can’t seem to get. Why is that? Simply, leadership failure. In this case, the failure point is me. If leadership is influence,…

I need to really get the fuck out of the way. I need to be less at PD, not more. I need to lead from a distance, let my leaders lead and figure it out. I either trust them or don’t.  If I do, I need to remove the training wheels. If I don’t, I…

NOISE. NOISE. NOISE.  SO MUCH NOISE.  So little focus. So much noise.  So many things pulling at me.  Really and truly, there are only a few things that are important.  Will you learn? Yes. But I forget.  What will you do to remember? Remember that you cannot overestimate the importance of almost everything.  Systems. That’s…

It’s clear you’re wasting time, second-guessing yourself. Not studying, not working out, not crushing it. Meanwhile, looking for distractions. Doom scrolling. You know your best. This has not been it.  Double down on what you know.   UPDATE: Matured Clarity

We want to get to $100M a year, and we spend 55 mins talking about ____’s simple transition from ____ to ____?! What a fucking nightmare.  For the first time in my life, I was actually bored out of my mind in our XT meeting. The same people who could go through 15 major discussions…

Between yesterday’s meeting, and a few other things, I’m not my best. I write this, acknowledging that I am emotionally compromised. It felt like we couldn’t get a win.  One thing after another: another thing that’s not working at PD – that’s wrong, incorrect, bad.  We moved from topic to topic, leaving the previous ones…

There’s a bias that we can’t scale if we attempt to keep our current culture intact. This bias is based on people’s understanding of what cultural norms are. We, PD, are not a ‘normal culture’ because we’re in Toronto. We’re being assessed based on the norms of industries in Toronto. Certain cultural artifacts, however odd…

I refuse to believe there’s only one way of leading. While people intellectually agree, when our style of leading differs from their convention, they’re quick to judge and assume it’s ineffective. Seldom, if ever, does the difference excite curiosity and wonder, questions and conversation. No. Quite the opposite. We’re told it doesn’t work because of…