Skilled managers help you bring your best self to the problems at hand, and help you improve your definition of “best self”. Less skilled ones force their idea of “best” upon you, and gradually erode your sense of self-worth and potential in the process.

"I like a crisp document and a messy meeting." Jeff Bezos on Lex Fridman "The document should be written with such clarity that it's like angels signing from up high." Lots of goodness here. How it feels when everyone's reading your memo, how the process of writing it might

1/4 Additional new bits of advice I wished I had known earlier (not in my book), as my gift on my 73 birthday: • The best way to criticize something is to make something better. • Admitting that “I don’t know” at least once a day will make you a better person. • Forget

This is such an amazing talk from Dr. Erik Meijer (Erik Meijer, famous for his work on Visual Basic, C#, LINQ, Hack), on how LLMs upended his research, and are changing coding and what developers do. I've clipped some of my fave parts of his talk: - His team found that the

A Döner Kebab spit being held up at knifepoint by a ... giraffe? WTF is that? #berlin #streetart

Having a little fun on NYE

#berlin #streetart

What light through yonder window breaks? Maybe just an Apple Store? #berlin

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. #berlin #streetart

“Believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see.”

Designpanoptikum, surreal museum for industrial objects #berlin

Christmas Carnival in Spandau, 2023 #berlin

Korbel, sleeping (2015). The vet techs used to call him "dog in a cat suit."

I think this means someone is having a bad day.

FANTA$IA #streetart #copenhagen

Ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall #streetart #barcelona

jellyfish, Miami aquarium #sealife

nighttime fountains at Versailles

I’m out of the USA for two short years and the advances in Peep technology while I was gone are truly mind blowing.

Carnival. Nice, France (2024)