Category: rant

Please Don’t Be Generic (When sending LinkedIn requests)

I believe in first impressions, especially if you’re asking someone else for something. When you make a connection to…

I’m a fan of Melville house, a young, savvy publishing company founded in 2001 in Brooklyn, NYC. They have…

Ranting about opinion pieces isn’t generally worthwhile, but some pieces are deeply flawed and popular enough that they demand…

I’ve published six successful books and in the years it took to write each one I’ve heard every range of…

Dear college graduates: I will share what no one told me when I graduated: live for yourself. Do not…

Experience is not what happens to you: it’s what you do with what happens to you. – Aldous Huxley…

People say they get stuck when they try to write, but being stuck really means you’re forced to think.…

Every few months there’s another article on the evils of PowerPoint, but it’s a poor craftsman that blames their…

Dear Micromanager: Owners of thoroughbreds never stop their horses mid-race, every ten seconds, to remind the horse and jockey…

I was out and about today, and got home to find email from a friend telling me my site…

Some of you know I worked at Microsoft years ago (’94-’03) as what they call a program manager. In…

The longer I’m alive the more often I realize the cause of problems is someone’s failure to get the…

The irony of my writings about innovation is how little interest I have in the latest trends. Sure, I…

There is not a child who dreams of being a project manager. Maybe a firefighter, a rock star or…

Over the last month I’ve spent more time than usual with consultants and it is making me miserable. Is…

George Orwell wrote about what happens when we misuse words. A core theme in the novel 1984 is how…