Month: June 2025

I really liked Nadia Asparouhova’s book Antimemetics, exploring the memetic landscape we inhabit (and create!). Everybody is now familiar with memes, those pieces of content that go “viral” and “infect” the mass consciousness by spreading rapidly across social media. These memes tend to appeal to the lowest common denominator, being light or fun or cute…

One insight can change your career. That’s the principle behind Maven’s Lightning Lessons, 30-minute webinars taught by experienced industry practitioners sharing their learnings. I was honored to learn that Maven selected my talk on How to Unlock Your Executive Potential as one of their top Lightning Lessons. In it, I shared three crucial mindset shifts…

I had a nice surprise yesterday when my book was mentioned in Lenny Rachitsky’s newsletter! Noam Segal followed up on the tech worker sentiment survey they published a few weeks ago which showed that the vast majority of tech workers were suffering from some level of burnout by interviewing people to learn more about what…

I am honored that my course on the executive mindset was selected as one of the top leadership courses in the “Maven 100” this week. This course emerged from my own experience navigating the challenges of scaling my impact beyond what I could do myself by working hard. I got fired from one job and…

Effective leadership gets people to follow. I had this misconception early in my career that people listened to leaders because of their titles, and that someday I would be given that title and then people would listen to me. But that’s not how it works. Somebody who can only get others to follow them by…

Looking forward to chatting in a couple hours with Gerta Malaj and Alex C. about adopting an executive mindset for leading and negotiating at work. We will be talking about how to build influence, find allies and navigate the complexities of getting things done with organizations. Sign up to join via https://lu.ma/ibxqfukw – I look…