This week it has been raining. The walk around the pond was squishy and slippery this morning, and Aria came back from her romp with muddy paws. The swimming pool has gone green with the combination of last week’s heat and this week’s rain. And dinner last night was an interrupted affair as I had to…

The toddler squirmed in his mother’s arms. “No, no, no, noooooo!” he said, putting his newfound vocabulary to work. My friend—his mom—was a vision of calm, offering him this or that, coaxing him out of her arms so she could eat her soup to stave off the damp London chill. “No!” is not his only word,…

One of the most imperative questions all of us should be asking ourselves these days is: How can our relationships with one another make us bigger, more capable, more loving rather than smaller, more defended, more aggressive or sad or afraid? We see on the news every day how likely humans are to…

It feels like I’m always on planes these days. Laptop out, shoes off, passport tucked under my jacket, under my tiny bag of liquids. Airplane coffee, airport porridge, boarding announcements in three languages. This plane, though, is taking me home, and I feel the bubbling of excitement that comes…

É difícil fugir da quase onipresença da tecnologia em nossas vidas, cada vez mais digitalizada em todos os seus aspectos do dia-a-dia. Saudosos são os dias em que você poderia percorrer sua vida sem precisar necessariamente acessar algum dispositivo digital para realizar suas funções. Seja…

Charlie Munger, the business partner of Warren Buffett and Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, is famous for his quote “All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.” That thinking was inspired by the German mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, famous for some work on…

Na virada de 2019 para 2020 eu decidi que iria tirar um período sabático. Essa decisão veio logo após o término de um grande ciclo da minha vida profissional: minha empresa (Plataformatec) foi comprada pela Nubank, 11 anos após termos fundado ela. Foi algo muito bom, mas de repente eu me vi sem…

Depois de termos explorado a construção do portfólio de Safe-To-Fail probes e expormos os limites do modelo tradicional com squads diante das possibilidades abertas pela IA, é hora de mergulhar nos detalhes da estrutura que melhor conseguiu explorar esse novo potencial: o modelo de pares (ou trios)…

… and the fallacy of simplifying complexity I’ve posted many times on the issue of the proverbial fat tail. The first time was after several of us, including Max Boisot, had been involved in a workshop at the Academy back in 2010. A guest blog from Pierpaolo provides a solid background to the issue,…

Shutterstock A little less than two years ago, I wrote a post called “the medium chill,” about efforts by my wife and me to step off the “aspirational treadmill” and accept some material constraints in exchange for lives with more free time, relationships, and experiences. It has gone on to be my…

The medium chill: Get off the aspirational treadmill and into a hammock. Mother Jones has an interesting package up called “Speedup: Working More, Making Less.” In the lead story, editors Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery chronicle the harrowing pace of modern work life: the long hours and hairy…

No início do relacionamento, antes de se casarem, Anne Kelsh trabalhava em casa e gostava de preparar o jantar para seu parceiro, o que ela chamava de "a diversão do papel doméstico". Ele disse que gostaria de jantar quando chegasse em casa à s 18h. Isso era um pouco cedo para Kelsh, mas ela…

Will you face uncertainty alone with prefabricated answers, or together with the superpower of ... More collective sensemaking. Which leader will you choose to be? getty You're three minutes into an all-hands meeting when someone asks the question you've been expecting, "What does AI transformation…

I’m writing this because I’ve seen too many product people feeling stuck and disappointed. Not because they don’t care. Not because they’re not ambitious enough. But because the oversimplified stories - stripped of nuance and context - have made it far too easy for many to feel inadequate, and part…

Quando Louis Vuitton lança chocolates e Hermès organiza uma gincana em Manhattan, a sensação inicial é a de encantamento. Experiência, arte, delicadeza - palavras já cansadas que o branding insiste em reapresentar como se fossem novidade. Mas, como quase tudo nesse setor, o gesto delicado carrega…

Join any Zoom call, walk into any lecture hall, or watch any YouTube video, and listen carefully. Past the content and inside the linguistic patterns, you’ll find the creeping uniformity of AI voice. Words like “prowess” and “tapestry,” which are favored by ChatGPT, are creeping into our vocabulary,…