For anyone who remembers typing TURN OFF LIGHT SWITCH while playing the text-adventure game Zork—instead of typing 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" because there were no programs to run besides the ones you could make yourself—you recall the feeling of being drawn into an alternate universe.

When I was asked if I wanted to be a part of our Mentoring Development Program, I jumped at the opportunity to do so. Because who doesn’t love to be mentored, coached, improved? Although the more senior you get, the more often you find that YOU are the one being…

This is a regular (delayed) re-post of my plaintext #nolinks monthly #ResilienceTech briefing that you can sign up for here 👉 http://eepurl.com/c9OjRX Four Things That I’m Thinking About #ResilienceTech * Modern neuroscience tells us how we store and process information depends upon our emotional state, which easily triggers the “fight or flight” response. Technologies that are designed…

“Come to think of it … I might need that thing I was just about to throw out. Phew!” — me Whenever I visit my 86-year old Mom, she is always showing me something sparkly and new that she’s collected. Or, more recently … because she’s preparing to die ……

When leading where your teams are going, you also need to know whether they’re following. —A Fourth Option for leaders to take As a “maker” of things, I’ve never been a “leading from the front” kind of person and more of a “leading by example” one. But over time I…

Getting Firebase auth to work in Flutter is magical when you know how to do it, but unfortunately if you did it in years prior then you’re not likely to do it the same way today. I keep doing this over and over again when I start a new project…

“Manage by your outbox. Not by your inbox.” —useful advice given to me by President Bacow of Harvard University The morning light was creeping in as I quietly lay in a dorm room bed at Harvard while another college president typed fervently on his Blackberry in the bed next to…

This is a regular (delayed) re-post of my plaintext #nolinks monthly #ResilienceTech briefing that you can sign up for here 👉 http://eepurl.com/c9OjRX Four Things That I’m Thinking About #ResilienceTech The root causes of all resilience challenges come from two places: 1/ the climate, and 2/ us. …

Four Things That I’m Thinking About #ResilienceTech Time is embodied in every notable moment of our lives by acknowledging what happens 1/ “before” 2/ “during” or 3/ “after” the event. Bad things can unexpectedly “happen to us” when we lack preparation for an event. That’s because we ignored the “before” phase. Traditionally, #ResilienceTech has centered around the…