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Jul
31
Craggy wooden bench on dusty sand, with desert mountains in the background. Sunny day, blue sky, low clouds

Summer Reading 2023: On Management #52

"Evil is rarely complicated. It’s just fucking bold." - S.A. Cosby
8 min read
Jun
19
Warm take: emotional contagion

Warm take: emotional contagion

"We are walking mood inductors." Sigal Barsade.
4 min read
May
29
Lots of tubes, screens and cords, as in a lab, greys black and whites with red and yellow accents

Warm Take: a story behind a story

"...like, part of the theatre of that story, or any story, is that it's in The New York Times..." Taffy Brodesser-Akner
8 min read
May
07
Shopping carts, grey asphalt foreground; background is white RV "swish" graphics, trees and setting (or rising) sun.

Warm Take: Rebrand This

Profiling Liz
4 min read
Apr
23
Colorful, sunny, display of citrus, melons, cucumbers, and more; in red, yellow, white and green crates and containers.

Potpourri: On Management #51

Good news, bad advice, and Big Mom Energy
6 min read
Mar
19
Office workers line up to look at a quilt-like arrangement of Occupy Wall street posters and banners.

Blazing Warm Take on SVB

"When in doubt, tell the truth." - Mark Twain
5 min read
Mar
05
Warm Take: Stop Making Sense

Warm Take: Stop Making Sense

We also didn't start the fire
3 min read
Jan
29
Parrot, blue head, gold and orange body, blue and gold wing and tailfeathers, extending one wing, dark background

Warm Take: same as it ever was

Garbage in, garbage out
7 min read
Dec
04
Acropolis, golden and rust colored stone against a grey cloudy sky, showing the cables that are propping up the structure

Warm Take: assumptions and consequences

"...Stoking the star maker machinery/Behind the popular song..."
4 min read
Nov
06
Blue sky, rolling terrain, maroon sign with grey graphic of 2 pickaxes, "Valle Dela Luna, Reserva Nacionale Los Flamencos"

Warm Take: the work issue. Or, a work issue.

Bet on it: I'll be coming back to this
2 min read