#culture

The Authenticity Rebellion: Resisting the AI Echo Chamber: The Flood Has Arrived Auto-generated blog posts. Podcast transcripts turned into Twitter threads.

The Founder Pay Gap: Why VCs Undercompensate the CEOs Who Built the Company: Let’s say you’re a founder CEO. You took the risk.

A while back, I came across a hiring philosophy from Varun Mohan, co-founder and CEO of Windsurf, that stopped me cold.

Let’s talk about a particular flavor of leadership dysfunction: the passive-aggressive manager. You’ve probably worked with one.

Few workplace rituals inspire dread quite like performance reviews. Employees brace for ambiguous feedback, and managers groan at the prospect of endless pap...

"This isn't what we asked for." Five words that strike dread into every engineering team. Five words that signal a fundamental breakdown in the engineering-p...

The Executive Trap I've seen it happen a dozen times: A brilliant engineer becomes CTO and suddenly decides their job is "managing the engineering organization..."

In medical school, students take the Hippocratic Oath, pledging to "first, do no harm." As product managers, we'd do well to adopt a similar mindset.

In the decidedly fast-paced world of product management, even breakfast needs a framework. After extensive user research (asking my colleagues on Slack), mul...

In my last post, I argued against perfectionism in startup environments. Today, I want to explore the other side of that coin: when quality really matters, a...

It's been exactly three months since I returned to San Francisco, and I'm finally starting to feel like I'm settling into a new rhythm.

It's become almost a cliché at this point: leaving San Francisco, writing a lengthy Medium post about why you're done with the Bay Area, only to find yourself...

The Weight We Carry There's a peculiar heaviness to modern existence. We wake each morning already bearing the invisible weight of emails unopened, messages...