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.
Read moreWartime CEO, compromised?
Not all is good, peachy keen, and rainbows and sunshine. When I start ruminating, losing sleep at night, waking up early… When this happens, we’re in danger. When my Spidey sense goes berserk, something is not right. What’s the worst thing that could happen to PD? When the captain is compromised, and you don’t know…
Read moreMeditation is required.
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…
Read moreLeash
Something small came up at the office recently. I thought I’d shrugged it off. Apparently, I hadn’t. It stayed with me. Took root. Started growing. More weed than tree, and I know what happens when I leave those things alone. We’d received a report on how the company was doing. There was plenty to feel…
Read moreHow to get ruined
I’ve seen many people get ruined over time. These are some. The martyr who gets squeezed by two different generations. Old-school parents who put everything into their kids, have no savings, and now rely on their adult children to take care of them. The adult children are new-school ideology, have no expectations of their kids,…
Read moreProxemics
[Gemini AI] Proxemics is the study of how humans use physical space and distance during social interactions, as well as how space and population density affect behavior and communication. The term was coined by anthropologist Edward T. Hall in the late 1950s and early 1960s. [1, 2, 3, 4] You can read more detailed research…
Read moreWhat holds a growing culture together?
It’s expanding, growing, and evolving in different ways. It’s clear: there are subcultures at PD.This is a great thing. It’s normal, healthy, and expected. One only needs to sit on two different team huddles to see this. So, what holds the company together if cultures differ from team to team?
Read moreThe other sides of love.
Love is not logical, rational, pragmatic. Love is chaos, pleasure, suffering, lust, regret, madness, euphoria, exhilaration, sleepless nights pondering, wondering, fantasizing, bruding, scheming. Love is war. It’s strategy, planning, attacking, capturing attention, mind, body, and soul. Logic is not the road to success. Seduction is. Naivety and patience loses to cleverness mixed with wisdom in…
Read moreBrothers and Sisters
Some of the best of us have strained relationships with our immediate families. Conflicts, even fued scars and scabs from times forgotten. Some of the best of us, have been unable to mend relationships with our brothers and sisters. How can we expect civilizations to understand each other? Is it so? We must find peace,…
Read more