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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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