I've written before on accountability being part of the underlying philosophy accompanying everything I do. This extreme ownership means that I take 100% responsibility for my team's plans, our operation and our execution. Also for the success but especially the failure of those missions. Extreme ownership

The "Tyranny of the OR" refers to the belief that we must choose between competing beliefs as if they are mutually exclusive. In other words: It postulates a fallacy that something must be A or B, but never both. A failure to embrace paradox. When we buy into

The title of this article is out of Shakespeare's Hamlet and perfectly encapsulates the core Stoic belief that the quality and our happiness in life is determined to a very high degree by our value judgements. Situations are most often out of our control . But the way we

I've written previously on the utility of fast decision-making. This should not be confused with running into situations as a headless chicken without a plan. It was Sun Tzu who said that "the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won". Good preperation

A compliment I receive surprisingly often when receiving feedback is that I am a stoic person. For most people this refers to being mentally resilient, enduring adversity without complaining and generally having a tight upper lip. But there is a different between stoicism with a lowercase "s" and

We as humans are confronted with decisions all day, every day. Most of them are really inconsequential ("what pizza place should I order from?"), while others can can affect the trajectory of your entire life ("should I really take that job offer?"). We're not

I only had a brief stint in consulting after graduating college, but I use many of the mental models and mindsets from that time to this day. One that has really stuck with me is engraining cultural mindset of an obligation to dissent into the team. That's just

The metrics I talked about in my previous post are rooted in information retrieval and all require human supervision. We need a labelled dataset and a human to compare the data against each other. Alternatively (or better: additionally) we can go to ours users directly and treat the behavior of

I once worked with a really good Scrum Master who made my views on the importance of the role do a 180. They can do a lot more then share their screen during the daily, schedule the scrum ceremonies or remind the team to stay in a meeting's

There are few phrases that get thrown around as much as the necessity to become data driven. It stems from the desire of building organizations and products more objectively. That's a good thing. Data moves us away from making products on the back of intuition and feeling, but

I used to take absolutely horrendous notes. And most people I encounter have similar underlying issues in regards to note taking. It’s something I noticed occasionally when working in-person, and something I have heavily noticed since the assimilation of remote work, as documents and notes are much more regularly

Pivoting from being an SEO to being a product manager responsible for building a search engine made me really appreciate just how unassailably good Google is in its quality and sophistication. And yet, when building a search engine you will inevitably be benchmarked against Google, maybe internally but especially by

One of the most eye opening concepts I’ve encountered during my life is the Pareto Principle, also often referred to as the 80-20 rule. This mental model states that 80% of results are created through 20% of inputs. It is named after the italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who demonstrated

There’s a Latin phrase that states “omne trium perfectum”, which roughly translates to “everything that comes in threes is perfect”. Linguists will immediately think of the literary device of hendiatris. If you pay close attention you will notice how packages of three seem to appear all throughout life: * Literature:

I've privately discussed principles a lot on a non-practical plane. But in practice, they’re often quiet, unglamorous things. They don’t arrive with clarity. They don’t make decisions for you. And yet, they matter deeply, especially when things get messy. I'm discussing my own