Category: Reads
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Are social medias stealing our minds?
We all joke that it’s easy to spend too much time on these services, but we don’t recognize quite how engineered our social media addictions are. I knew I had a bad habit, but I didn’t grasp the gravity of what has really happened: a few big tech companies have literally succeeded in securing my attention from […]
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Joining Airbnb at 52
I started a boutique hotel company when I was 26 and, after 24 years as CEO, sold it at the bottom of the Great Recession, not knowing what was next. That’s when Airbnb came calling. In early 2013 cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky approached me after reading my book Peak: How Great Companies Get Their […]
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Should you have more than one career?
In my case, I have four vocations: I’m a corporate strategist at a Fortune 500 company, US Navy Reserve officer, author of several books, and record producer. The two questions that people ask me most frequently are “How much do you sleep?” and “How do you find time to do it all?” (my answers: “plenty” […]
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The “Thirty Percent Feedback” tecnique
Because I once asked Seth for feedback on a product mockup, and he asked if I felt like I was ninety percent done or thirty percent done. If I was ninety percent done, he would try to correct me on every little detail possible because otherwise a typo might make it into production. But if […]
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Building a better code review process
So what do you look at first when reviewing a new change to a software system? That’s easy: You start with the customer’s need, you proceed to the customer’s happiness, and then you work your way down to the code from there. — Gregory Brown https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/building-a-better-code-review-process
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You actually have plenty of time
You have all the time you need. You always have. You simply have to decide how you want to use it. — Peter Shankman https://medium.com/@petershankman/dear-i-don-t-have-the-time-people-you-actually-have-plenty-of-time-7eef36dad2be#.4zjepzug4