Earlier this week a friend asked if I knew any 5-10 person start-ups that were doing interesting work in the productivity space. I knew a couple, but the always-full-of-opinion Twitter seemed like a good place to learn more, so I asked. The following is a selection of the surprisingly large number of start-ups that responded.… more
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:
This article documents interview questions of CEOs – some useful material here.
My favorite moment playing hockey is literally a moment. The puck gets passed to me just behind the net, I look up across and I ask myself a simple question, “Hmmm, what am I going to do here?” In less than an instant, I do the following: Who are the two closest players on the… more
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.
My favorite VC and I were talking about motivating humans over drinks at Mars Bar. She explained, “Rands, each person needs to hear the same message in a different way. Did you read the language of love piece that stormed around the Internet? It describes the five different ways we might like to receive love:… more
Resignations happen in a moment, and it’s not when you declare, “I’m resigning.” The moment happened a long time ago when you received a random email from a good friend who asked, “I know you’re really happy with your current gig because you’ve been raving about it for a year, but would you like to… more
Next summer, the third edition of Managing Humans will be published. Like the prior edition, I’ll be nuking some chapters, adding new ones, and editing the current ones. I’m also thinking about going full Catcher in the Rye for the cover. Stay tuned.
Long ago, there was a Glossary that captured the terms I used both in the blog and in the books. This Glossary did not make the transition to the new version of the site until this morning. I’ve done a lightweight editing pass on this current version, but would love your suggestions for additions/edits to the current version which will be published along with v3 of the book.
Happy Merry.