As you may have noticed, I’ve been posting work to Medium for several months now. This started out as an experiment to see the magnitude of the reaction to successful pieces I’ve already written here.

The results? There are a lot of humans out there and many of them traipsing around Medium had never read these pieces. In general, an article that performed well here will play well on Medium provided that it hasn’t been posted here recently.

Folks have asked. No, I’m not done posting here. My policy is to continue to post all new content here and occasionally post pieces to Medium.

Now you know.

I’ve been working on a talk about public speaking for a few weeks and I open with my worst public speaking experience. I tell the story of how I got up in front of the engineering team at my first start-up and had a full blown panic attack. Slide 7 of 15 – full stop. Couldn’t continue.

Most humans don’t like speaking in front of other humans and for me that situation is only exacerbated by being a self-identified introvert.

Thing is… I like public speaking. It’s a high. I get energy from the room and I’ve never been able to reconcile my introversion with this aspect of public speaking. Good news: outgoing introverts.

From The Muse – Outgoing Introverts Do Exist. Here’s one of the 10 signs:

It Actually Takes Less Energy to Say What’s on Your Mind Than to Make Small Talk

Introverts like talking about ideas or connecting authentically. Fake small talk bores you and drains your life force.

Yes. Right. Totally.

From typography.com:

About two years ago, H&Co Senior Designer Andy Clymer proposed that we design a monospace typeface. Monospace (or “fixed-width”) typefaces have a unique place in the culture: their most famous ancestor is the typewriter, and they remain the style that designers reach for when they want to remind readers about the author behind the words. Typewriter faces have become part of the aesthetic of journalism, fundraising, law, academia, and politics; a dressier alternative to handwriting, but still less formal than something set in type, they’re an invaluable tool for designers.

I’ve dropped Operator Mono into both Sublime and Terminal. A monospace typeface needs to be readable and without a lot of opinion. After brief usage, Operator Mono easily meets both requirements.

I’ve been fretting about the role of lead of leaders. I have a good rubric for understanding and evaluating front line leaders, but lead of leaders is a very different gig that requires a different set of leadership muscles. Briefly and incompletely, they need to be better at:

• Delegating work
• Influencing
• Decomposing vision into strategy
• Executing that strategy
• Building of new leaders

This article documents interview questions of CEOs – some useful material here.

I’m not sure what is more surprising. There’s a dog-sitting start-up in Seattle called Rover or:

The average tenure of a developer in Silicon Valley is nine months at a single company. In Seattle, that length is closer to two years.

I’d like to see the source data on this assertion. Not the existence dog-sitting start-up part.

Via Corinne Purtill on Quartz:

The higher the concentration of high-ranking executives, the more a group struggled to complete the task. They competed for status, were less focused on the assignment, and tended to share less information with each other. Their collaboration skills had grown rusty with disuse.