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179 posts on banking, leadership, AI, building things, and the occasional rant.
2026
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Day Zero Transcript
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Day Zero - Series Intro
August 4, 2026
This month-long series guides you on how to build a side hustle through daily focused steps, practical education, and AI coaching… all free and jargon-free.
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Day 1 - Define Your Why.
August 4, 2026
Clarify your purpose by identifying personal frustrations, then design a side hustle that solves them and delivers lasting value others would truly miss if it disappeared.
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Day 2 - Pinpoint Your Core Problem.
August 4, 2026
Narrow your broad purpose to the one problem that drives you and impacts your audience most. Use passion, prioritization, and client insights to build a focused, valuable hustle.
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Day 3 - Identify Competitors & Market Gaps.
August 4, 2026
Analyze competitors and uncover market gaps to shape a unique value proposition, ensuring your hustle stands out and delivers real value to your audience.
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Day 4 - Draft a One-Page Business Plan
August 4, 2026
Day 4 guides you to create a clear, one-page business plan that aligns your vision, sets priorities, and targets investors, teams, or partners for support and growth.
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Day 5 - Separate and Safeguard Your Hustle.
August 4, 2026
Day 5 covers legal setup: choosing the right business structure, getting necessary licenses, and managing risks to protect your hustle and assets.
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Day 6 - Get the basics of finance/admin sorted.
August 4, 2026
Day 6 covers financial basics: open a business bank account, select accounting tools, explore funding options, and understand unit economics to build a profitable hustle.
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Day 7 - Week 1 Review
August 4, 2026
Many avoid side hustles due to misplaced corporate loyalty. True loyalty is to purpose and self-growth. The journey shapes character, progress, and alignment with values.
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Day 8 - Define Your Brand Feel.
August 4, 2026
Day 8 teaches you to define a brand identity that builds emotional connections and loyalty. Your brand should reflect your mission and resonate deeply with your audience.
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Day 9 - Domain names and social media handles.
August 4, 2026
Day 9 focuses on choosing a memorable, brand-reinforcing domain name and securing consistent social media handles. These build trust, professionalism, and make your hustle easy to find and remember.
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Day 10 - Build Your Website with a Clear Call-to-Action (CTA).
August 4, 2026
Day 10 guides you to create a focused website that drives a clear action and tells your brand story. Plus, learn pricing strategies to balance value and profit for your hustle.
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Day 11 - Use Social Media as a Sales Funnel.
August 4, 2026
Day 11 teaches using social media as sales funnels by mapping platforms to customer journey stages and tailoring content to turn followers into loyal customers.
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Day 12 - Develop a Simple, Repeatable Content Strategy.
August 4, 2026
Day 12 teaches creating a content strategy with key pillars tailored for each platform, guiding your audience through the sales funnel naturally while building trust.
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Day 13 - Network!
August 4, 2026
Day 13 emphasizes networking as key to hustle success: define your unique value, build relationships through persistence, and develop a personal process to connect meaningfully despite discomfort.
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Day 14- Reflecting on Week 2
August 4, 2026
Learn to embrace discomfort and persistence as keys to side hustle success. And get ready for Week 3 which will be focusing on mastering sales to convert your efforts into revenue.
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Day 15- The Trust Builder Mindset Part 1 - Empathy.
August 4, 2026
Day 15 emphasizes empathy in selling: actively listening to understand customer needs, building trust, and reframing sales as a service that aligns with your values.
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Day 16- The Trust Builder Mindset Part 2 - Active Listening.
August 4, 2026
Day 16 teaches active listening as a sales superpower: understanding prospect needs and emotions deeply, building trust through empathy and curiosity, and responding with genuine connection.
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Day 17- The Trust Builder Mindset Part 3 - Curiosity.
August 4, 2026
Day 17 focuses on relentless curiosity in sales: asking open-ended, humble questions to build trust, discover hidden client needs, and foster deeper relationships for success.
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Day 18- The Trust Builder Mindset Part 4 - Transparency.
August 4, 2026
Day 18 teaches unflinching transparency: openly sharing your journey, challenges, and pricing builds trust, loyalty, and sets you apart in sales and leadership.
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Day 19- Trust Killers.
August 4, 2026
Day 19 highlights avoiding cold calls and spam emails, favoring network mapping to get warm introductions, build trust, and create genuine business connections.
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Day 20- Trust Multipliers.
August 4, 2026
Day 20 teaches trust multipliers: consistent care, transparency, advocacy, and feedback loops that grow loyalty, deepen relationships, and turn clients into advocates.
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Day 21- Reflecting on Week 3.
August 4, 2026
Success requires courage, persistence, generosity, and showing up. Trust-building earns the right to help and lays a foundation for lasting growth and impact.
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Day 22- Implement Value-Based Pricing.
August 4, 2026
Day 22 teaches mastering pricing strategies by leveraging customer behavior data, using ethical dynamic pricing, and maintaining transparency to scale your hustle and build trust.
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Day 23- Delegate the Right Things.
August 4, 2026
Day 23 guides mastering delegation: define tasks, assess importance, assign right people, set expectations, and empower for scale and sustainability.
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Day 24- Automate for Scale.
August 4, 2026
Day 24 teaches building scalable hustles by prioritizing simple products, optimizing processes, and adding thoughtful tech automation, with regular review for continuous improvement.
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Day 25- Strategic Partnerships.
August 4, 2026
Day 25 teaches strategic partner signaling: build authentic value, showcase strengths, and emit clear, consistent signals to attract and foster mutually beneficial partnerships.
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Day 26- Buid a Data Moat
August 4, 2026
Day 26 teaches building defensible data moats with unique user behavior data, enabling personalized content and sustainable growth in your hustle.
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Day 27- Employ Counter-Positioning
August 4, 2026
Day 27 teaches counter-positioning: build a business model that exploits incumbents' sacred cows, making your hustle unreplicable and defensible.
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Day 28- Reflecting on Week 4
August 4, 2026
Scale with purpose by avoiding efficiency and collaboration traps. Prune offerings and invest in people-centric processes. And safeguard core values.
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Day 29- Turn Churn into Growth.
August 4, 2026
Day 29 teaches embracing churn and feedback as valuable tools, designing recovery workflows and graduation moments to build loyalty and convert lost clients into advocates.
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Day 30- Reframe Frustrations as Needs.
August 4, 2026
Day 30 teaches synthetic demand creation by reframing customer frustrations as urgent needs and using FOMO tactics to ignite market demand and growth.
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Day 31- Design for Optionality.
August 4, 2026
Day 31 teaches exit engineering: design your hustle for liquidity, optimize operations, document processes, build defensible value, and create multiple exit pathways.
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Day 32- Anticipate Disruption.
August 4, 2026
Day 32 teaches horizon planning to anticipate market changes, stress-test business models, and maintain agility through scanning present, emerging, and future trends.
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Day 33- Hijack Meme Culture.
August 4, 2026
Day 33 teaches meme engineering to hijack cultural narratives and create shareable content that sparks viral, community-driven growth.
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Day 34- Self-Care!
August 4, 2026
Day 34 teaches founder self-care: recognize burnout, set boundaries, build support systems, and cultivate daily habits to sustain energy and resilience.
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Day 35- Reflecting on Week 5
August 4, 2026
Scaling brings professionalism but risks loss of passion and meaning. So balancing growth with preserving the amateur spirit is essential for founders.
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The Syllabus
June 30, 2026
Here’s the outline for an Ivy League-inspired, MBA-style course designed for busy professionals who want to turn an hour a day into a meaningful, income-generating side hustle. You start by watching one video every day during your lunchbreak, answering some questions, picking up some MBA skills and then using an AI framework to get real-time coaching on how to answer those sames questions like you’re in a top business school like Harvard or Wharton.
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Day Zero
June 29, 2026
I was originally going to call this "The Entrepreneurial Mindset: Building Scalable Ventures from Concept to Execution." And the course description would read “This intensive MBA module distills 20+ years of corporate leadership and entrepreneurial success into an actionable curriculum. Students will master the three most important skills they need– focus, prioritization and delegation– while developing a fully operational business in 28 days– learning to blend Silicon Valley agility with Fortune 500 strategic rigor.” But then I got over myself.
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Day 1
June 28, 2026
Kick off your journey by clarifying your purpose-why do you want to start a business in the first place? Today’s focus is on uncovering the personal frustrations or injustices that could spark a powerful business idea. This is the first step in learning how to start a business as a beginner, one lunch break at a time.
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Day 2
June 27, 2026
Today we shift from your “why” to your “what”-it’s time to pinpoint the core problem your business will solve. You’ll learn how to focus your energy on the one issue you can’t stop thinking about, setting the stage for small business ownership and showing you how to start a business step by step.
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Day 3
June 26, 2026
Identify your direct and indirect competitors to see who’s already serving your audience and what they’re doing better (and worse) than you. Today’s focus is on finding the gaps in the market that your future business can fill, a crucial step in how to start a business step by step and stand out from the crowd.
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Day 4
June 25, 2026
Today is all about building your one-page business plan-a simple, actionable roadmap that pulls together your purpose, the problem you’re solving, and how you’ll make money. Whether you’re just starting out or refining your vision, this is the foundation for small business ownership and a crucial step in how to start a business as a beginner.
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Day 5
June 24, 2026
Today’s focus is on separating and safeguarding your side hustle-learn why keeping clear boundaries between your day job and your business is crucial, and how to avoid legal and ethical pitfalls from day one. This is a must for anyone serious about small business ownership and learning how to start a business step by step.
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Day 6
June 23, 2026
Get your business finances in order by setting up a dedicated business bank account. Learn why separating your personal and business money is a must for small business ownership and how this simple step can help you earn money from home with less stress.
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Day 7
June 22, 2026
Reflect on the first week of building a business, one lunch break at a time. Today’s focus is on reviewing progress, celebrating small wins, and identifying what’s working-and what’s not. This is how to start a business step by step, even if you’re a total beginner.
2024
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First 30 Days Reading List
March 25, 2024
A subscriber asked for the complete list of books I recommended as pre-reads for the series. Enjoy!
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First 30 Days as a New CIO
March 25, 2024
If you don’t want to watch this on Tiktok or YouTube, here’s the full transcript.
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The Breakthrough
March 2, 2024
Innovation requires some demolition, the occasional tearing down of a wall. For sunlight. For play. For profit. So bring your hammer and a snack.
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Why I'm No Longer Creating Content for LinkedIn
February 12, 2024
Saying goodbye to an old friend that you finally realize might have never been a friend. And what makes it even sadder is knowing that they’re wasting real potential.
2023
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Books, Books, Books (2023)
December 4, 2023
I go through books like honey butter so here are my best-of-the-best for the year.
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Commercial Lending in an Hour
November 20, 2023
Commercial lending is all about relationships. You can automate the grind, but don’t forget: Bob the Banker is still your best asset (for now).
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OTC Derivatives in an Hour
November 13, 2023
OTC derivatives: custom contracts for hedging risk. Think private bets with rules only two parties know. Super complex. Super vital. Always a little wild.
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KYC in an Hour
November 6, 2023
Banks need to make you prove you’re not a villain—over and over—with docs, forms, and all kinds of fact checking. It should be a goldmine, but feels like a grind.
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Securities Lending in an Hour
October 16, 2023
Big funds loan out their stocks and bonds for extra income. Borrowers use them to settle trades, short the market, or make bets. Everyone wins.
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Four Chords
September 27, 2023
How Ed Sheeran reminds us all of Robotic Process Automation.
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Design Fatigue
September 25, 2023
All the designers I’ve ever known rationalize their changes as benefiting their clients– making their product more intuitive.
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Hedge Funds and Prime Brokerage
September 11, 2023
Hedge funds = snowflakey investment machines. Prime brokers? They’re backstage—clearing trades, safekeeping assets, lending leverage, providing research, intros, and crisis support.
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The Spider
September 4, 2023
All mystery removed from production support calls.
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Digitizing Fee Schedules
August 31, 2023
11th in my YouTube series “Find Something Better to Do” - based on things I tell my kids:
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Before His Time
August 30, 2023
Gutenberg— by today’s standards— was unsuccessful. His printing press flopped because buyers couldn’t read. Human history: still getting dumberer.
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Thumb Spasm
August 29, 2023
Written by 12-year-old me.
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Ahooga!
August 28, 2023
Software needs joy and surprise. Maybe even the occastional clown nose. Because boring apps are just sad little formal shoes to fill.
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TikTok Free
August 21, 2023
If you’re looking for a future-forward side hustle, let me suggest “AI journalism” — quotes intentional and dipped deeply in spicy sarcasm sauce.
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Complexity for Dinner
August 16, 2023
Stop using spaghetti as your work complexity metaphor at work. We all deserve to keep our carbs and chaos separate. Instead, try icebergs.
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Mistake Pathways
August 15, 2023
Human brains— like companies— love reruns. Like new consultants, same mistakes. Your “mistake pathways” aren’t just nostalgia. They’re on repeat for a reason.
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Wealth Management in an Hour
August 14, 2023
Wealth management is about listening, life planning, and building your ideal mix of investments and services. Useful unless you’re rich enough to have your own family office.
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Quiet Luxury
August 9, 2023
Why must every tech gadget scream its brand? Give me an Hermès vibe, not some “drunk uncle” logo. Differentiate on design. Make life more beautiful.
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Trust, Celebrity and the Future of Big Social
August 7, 2023
Trust isn’t dying. It’s just being rerouted from tired institutions to TikTok teens and the new class of billionaires. If you have to pick one, invest in the teens.
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Light Through the Cracks
August 4, 2023
If you’re going to armor up….
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Proof of Adoption (Part 2)
August 3, 2023
Mandates don’t work. And memos don’t get read. Adoption needs early fans with ice cream cones they really, really, really want to share. Social capital, yo!
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Make It 'Til You Make It
August 2, 2023
A set of posters to encourage that one person we all have in our lives who needs a nudge.
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Proof of Adoption (PoA)
August 1, 2023
Three universal thruths: 1) Peanut butter cups are medicine. 2) PoC is theater. 3) PoA is survival.
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Parkinson's AI
July 31, 2023
AI will definitely come for your busywork! Let me play futurist and tell you the result: same meetings, same deadlines, same timeframes. You’re welcome.
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Comparing AWS, GCP and Azure: 10 Analogies in Plain English
June 19, 2023
AWS is the buffet. Azure’s your friendly dad at a BBQ. GCP’s quiet luxury. And they either want to sell you crack, fries, or a magic muffler.
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The Unfunny Valley
June 12, 2023
Want to achieve Dad-level, epic comedy glory? Super simple. Use the heart emoticon in Teams waaaay more than you should.
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No Meeting Fridays
June 9, 2023
“No Meeting Fridays” are for people who haven’t mastered “no.” It’s old school paternalistic bs, unapologetic and proud.
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Code Switching, Dagnabbit
June 8, 2023
“Fake it till you make it” works a little too well. And you don’t want to hear this but fitting in (and success on “their terms”) is just not worth the sacrifice.
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The Before Times
June 7, 2023
Remember when doors just opened? Someday, the bots will break and a Whole Foods line will form. Bring snacks.
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The Missing Bridge
June 6, 2023
Mentorship is a nice walk. Sponsorship is a bridge. If you want real growth… sweat together… build together. No shortcuts. No TED Talk wisdom required.
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One Man's Treasure
June 5, 2023
Day one of a five-day writing exercise: What if I posted every day?
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How to Understand an Earnings Report in an Hour
May 27, 2023
Understanding earnings reports is important because they help you see how a company is really performing so you can make smarter decisions about investing or doing business with it.
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Private Equity in an Hour
April 22, 2023
Learn about how investors pool their money to buy and improve private companies (not traded on the stock market), aiming to sell them later for a profit.
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The Only Barrier to Straight-Through Processing (STP)
April 16, 2023
To achieve true STP, service providers have to return to servicing their clients, redefining partnership to mean shared efficiencies and shared financial benefits.
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Mortgage-Backed Securities
April 4, 2023
Getting a better understanding of mortgage-backed securities means that you’ll know how safe and/or risky these investments are.
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The Jobs AI Will Replace
April 3, 2023
The engineering jobs you worry AI will kill… never existed. But be worried if you’re in commercial art, copywriting, marketing, banking ops.
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The Operating Model of Tomorrow
March 20, 2023
How should we build companies going forward? Trust, autonomy, and actually paying people for impact instead of their meeting stamina.
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Data Science Without Business Context
March 13, 2023
Banks spend billions on data. They hire data scientists who don’t understand their core businesses and then act shocked with their lack of insights (and speed).
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The End of Indian IT Outsourcing
March 6, 2023
India’s IT outsourcing boom was built on unsustainable labor arbitrage. So it’s only a matter of time before it crumbles. Cue the garlands and drama.
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Securities Trade Life Cycle: Front, Middle and Back Office
March 3, 2023
Let’s get into the step-by-step process where a buy or sell order is placed, completed, confirmed, and the stocks and money are safely exchanged between the buyer and seller.
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How to Manage Senior Stakeholders
February 20, 2023
Super simple guide to navigating around corporate seniors: less heroics, fewer firefights, more alliances… and know when to nod, smile, and duck.
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Top Five Reasons To End Top Five Lists
February 13, 2023
If you need an excerpt for this one, seek professional help.
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Everything's Fine
January 30, 2023
Your direct reports will work hard on everything, including making you feel like everything is going well. Just remember that real growth happens when you sweat the small stuff together.
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Gentle Capitalism
January 16, 2023
I don’t know who needs to hear this but there’s no reason for capitalism to have a hard edge. It can and should reflect who we are and who we aspire to be. Softer. Kinder. Less toxicity.
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Fund Accounting
January 2, 2023
Fund accounting is the art of calculating and recalculating all the numbers for a fund… basically providing evidence daily for how all the puzzle pieces fit, end-to-end.
2022
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The Cave
December 12, 2022
I wrote this journal entry when ChatGPT first released their product to the public. I spent a lot of time in my man cave, playing with it.
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Books, Books, Books ‘22
December 5, 2022
Here’s my second annual “I’m panicking” post. As you know, I go through books like bubble tea and last year, when I posted that I was down to my last hopeful recommendation in my reading queue, this amazing community graciously filled that queue with an amazing list of over 50 favorites.
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Grow Naked
November 28, 2022
Coaching in the corporate world is fundamentally broken. Same goes for mentoring and sponsorship. My answer? Build a side-hustle. Lose the armor.
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How to Market Software Engineering
November 21, 2022
Engineers are rarely treated like the artists they are. Until we market coding as a creative class—expect more caves, less light and escalating threats about being replaced by AI.
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Dance with Your Fears
November 14, 2022
Laid off? Google says: Network! Brand! Network some more! I say: dance with your fears. Take long walks. Practice faith. Serve others. Dancing is good for the soul.
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Equity Loses Momentum
October 31, 2022
Achieving diversity as hard enough without the political backlash. It’s harder now than ever— an uphill climb— a mountain with more mountains behind it.
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The Case for Biting
October 24, 2022
Every org is filled with dogs, cats, and rats. Most dogs just want to be liked. They bark at the cats but they don’t bite. Which usually means the cats ignore them and the rats take over.
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Moonlighting
October 10, 2022
Moonlighting isn’t some moral failure on the employee’s part. It’s a management problem. The answer is to fix how we measure output and value.
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Custody Banking
September 26, 2022
Custody banking is a service that securely holds and manages assets—like stocks or bonds—on behalf of clients, making sure they’re kept safe and properly accounted for.
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The Innovation Game
September 12, 2022
Most corporate “innovation” is executive cosplay: turtlenecks, jazz hands and please-the-boss hype. It’s selling cigarettes to kids— the seniors.
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Fwork
August 8, 2022
No one at work needs to know that you’re playing improv games. Just find a someone as twisted as you and, well… keep twisting. Make work joyful again.
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Leave It On
July 25, 2022
There are only two times when I turn my camera off during meetings. The first is the obvious one— you do *not* want to see me eating. I was clearly raised by ramen-lovin’ wolves.
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Hide the Cat
July 11, 2022
Next purchase for my kids: a gene splicing kit. I don’t care if their room is a mess but somewhere in there, they better be growing something cool. On purpose.
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Leading from Home
June 20, 2022
If any one of us wants to lead from home, every one of us has to change how we lead. Seven new leader archetypes. Infinite ways to Zoom different.
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Getting Ops Right
May 23, 2022
Getting to a fully-automated Ops future means ditching the hallowed static mindset and embracing both radical iteration and end-to-end thinking.
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The Dawn of Everything
May 2, 2022
Trying to apply some of the ideas in The Dawn of Everything to modern work life. The key word there— as you’ll soon see— is trying.
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On Your Own Terms
March 14, 2022
The word promotion has come to mean doing a larger job, sitting in a larger seat. It does not mean doing the same job (better) for more money.
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Good Trouble
February 28, 2022
Before the Edmund Pettus Bridge became a symbol of courage and hope, it was just a bridge. If you think about it, your office— right now— is just an office.
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Micro-Products
February 21, 2022
Monolithic products strip teams of autonomy. They rob good engineers of agency. The real case for building micro-products is that small plus simple equals empowering.
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Business Mythology
February 14, 2022
Why are stories about Bezos so much more compelling and prone to be retold than stories about Zuckerberg? What holes in our souls do they fill?
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Just Grow Older
February 7, 2022
If you’re feeling overwhelmed at work, find a person to laugh with, help someone… or just grow older and learn to care less (honey badger style).
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The Great Resignation: Part 2
January 31, 2022
Here’s a hon-exhaustive list of why internal mobility needs a disruption and how we might make it happen.
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Student Council President
January 24, 2022
We *really* need to do more to even the playing field for kids and young adults everywhere.
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Gen Z
January 17, 2022
At some point— 25 years from now— this younger generation with their “healthy” sense of “purpose” and “balance”– will be in charge. God help us all.
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The Great Resignation: Part 1
January 3, 2022
How banks can make the Great Resignation less heartbreaking, less stressful, more human and equitable.
2021
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Books, Books, Books '21
December 27, 2021
Recommendations galore and an ask for more to read.
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Redefining Bureacracy
December 20, 2021
Imagine a world that thinks that the answer to that structural embeddedness– that complexity– is entirely cultural. Imagine a world that thinks changing values and behaviors alone will get us different outcomes.
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Performance vs Potential
October 4, 2021
Celebrating our “high performers” is recognition and gratitude 101. But calling that same group “high potential” shouldn’t sit well with any of us.
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Cultural Architecture
September 27, 2021
Culture is what we do; the spirit in the machine; the secular, business equivalent to a soul. It’s pivotal to every company’s success.
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Culture Hacking
September 20, 2021
Repetitive, hollow practice is-- culturally-- a fake, forced smile. But before you dismiss it as anachronistic-- as a cynical corporate tactic to get more oomph out of employees-- think about endorphins.
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Sept 11
September 11, 2021
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MIT vs Harvard
August 30, 2021
If you care about your “GPA” at work or in life....
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Questions of Purpose
August 23, 2021
What if success is really about whether you find deep purpose in your work? What if success is about taking active ownership over your career or your relationship to your career?
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Engineering as a Service
August 16, 2021
Tired of average engineering output? Empower engineers. Not with capes. But with some Batman-grade, Alfred-supported self-awareness.
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Untitled Masterpiece
July 26, 2021
Despite my best efforts, the readership of this blog has extended past my teams in #India, #Poland, #Israel and the #US... so a quick primer for newer folks might be helpful.
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Algo vs Democracy
July 12, 2021
Derailing democracy is a bug, not a feature. And the devil is in the details of the algorithms you’ll soon work on... applied at scale.
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Low Code, No Code Soup
July 5, 2021
Low-code/no-code is a noble goal because its intent-- like our greatest ambitions-- is to serve the underserved. But it’s just a magic stone.
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Recruiting Engineers
June 14, 2021
This is one way I recruit online. Cue upbeat pharmaceutical-commercial music.
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Doublespeak
June 1, 2021
Our language in the office is important because it reflects who we are and what we aspire to
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Feeling Stuck
May 17, 2021
A former colleague asked me what I do when my career feels stuck. He obviously wasn’t asking for advice. He was asking for a job.
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Lessons from a Life (Long Ago) in Stand-Up Comedy
May 5, 2021
Bombing on stage (for years and years!) taught me more about leadership and risk mgmt than any corporate offsite ever could.
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Groundhog Day
April 26, 2021
Don’t be like Phil. He’s why every enterprise has 12 of everything-- 13 if you wait for the executive clock to reset.
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Delegate Up
April 12, 2021
Counterintuitive lesson in servant leadership.
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Which Managers To Pack For The Journey
April 1, 2021
Your success in the corporate world is tied 100% to how well you hoard good managers— those rare “net exporters of talent.”
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Don't Google Build vs Buy
March 8, 2021
Better word: integrate! Because a buy is just a build in disguise— a focus on data that needs your builders and can’t be bought.
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My OOO Message
February 15, 2021
If you need to change up your OOO message, feel free to steal mine. It served me well for some 25 years.
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Our Post-Pandemic Return to the Office of the Future
January 4, 2021
The title says it all.
