My Opinions

You are a more impactful when you wholeheartedly pick a side and express your beliefs.

On Matters of the Mind

• Superstitions are a form of self-limiting beliefs that can siphon away your control over own life.

On Meetings

• All virtual meetings with 5 - 15 participants should start with individualized “Hi, name!” greetings as each attendee joins.
• Meeting invites with more than 2 people should have a description that states the reason for the meeting and a link to where notes will be captured. This is to decrease anxiety and give participants a place to look back on what was discussed.
• Standups are for information exchange, not discussion or solutioning.

On Planning Work

• When an author writes a Product Specification, they should focus on defining the problem not a solution. This decreases the chances of an unknown high quality solution from never being discovered due to anchoring bias.
• Request for Comment (RFC)s are to be the collaboration vehicle for broadly impactful change strategizing.

On Presentations

• Visual storytelling that accompanies the spoken word are the most impactful.
• Anything worth animating is worth animating subtly.

On Software

• API-first thinking and an emphasis on interface design and evolution unlocks significant potential.
• User Interfaces should be “dumb” and only for presentation, interaction, and input. Mission critical algorithms should be centralized in a service elsewhere.

On Teamwork

• Members should feel safe to express early, unformed thoughts about things that are striking them as important for reasons they may not be able to fully articulate yet.
• Members should have high-quality connections with all other members—allowing them to feel positive regard, mutuality, and vitality from one another.