Can You Analyze Your Way Out of Anxiety?
I spent four years running a complete infrastructure rebuild at SurveyMonkey. Rebuild that touched every system, every team, every bit of politics in the company. And culminated in...
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You Were Never Destined for Great Things
A VP of Engineering told me once: "I keep finding myself frustrated that I'm not doing more." This is a guy who built his company's platform from nothing. He can look at a broken s...
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AI Made It Easy to Write Code. So Why Are You Burning Out?
A few days ago I shipped a change that was 3,800 lines long. I couldn't have reviewed all of it if you'd paid me. No human could. I read what I could, ran the tests, watched it beh...
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Everything You Think You Know About Meditation Is Wrong
You've tried it. Maybe more than once. You sat down, closed your eyes, and immediately started thinking about the email you forgot to send, the meeting you're dreading, whether you...
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Book Review: How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett
What if everything you thought you knew about emotions—that they're universal, hardwired, and beyond your control—was wrong? Lisa Feldman Barrett's “How Emotions Are Made” dispels ...
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The Real Reason Most Startups Fail (It's Not What You Think)
The startup failure statistics everyone quotes are wrong—or at least, they're missing the point. Yes, 42% of startups fail due to "no market need," and 29% run out of cash. But her...
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