Betterment

If you ask any team if they trust each other, they would probably say they do.

AI is a mystery. To many, it’s a threat. It turns out that understanding a mystery not only makes it feel less like a threat, it gives us the confidence to make it into something better. I us…

A young guy is the big man on campus at his high school. He’s captain of the varsity football team. Student body president. Homecoming king. Honor society. Valedictorian.  Thanks to his stellar high school career, he gets accepted to a prestigious Ivy League university. But instead of continuing his string of teenage successes, our promising […]

The scam era is upon us. Aided by AI, borderless currency and the internet of things, there are more people than ever before making a living hustling to steal, impersonate, defraud and otherwise vi…

Lots of people go to the beach but very few get in the water. 3,000 students go to the football game to watch 20 of their peers play. And we go to a conference to meet people and connect, and then …

Before jumping straight into scoping and designing new standards, we should look at other quick wins to increase consistency around how data is published.

A phrase that’s been showing up recently is, “no pressure.” It usually comes in a pitch letter of some sort, written by someone who isn’t in a position to exert any pressure…

I live by my planner. It's freeing.

Engineering is the powerful practice of being able to deliver artifacts that do what they’re supposed to. Bridges that don’t fall down, software that runs, IV lines that don’t get…

Applying Econ 101 to understand why some people have great jobs ... and others don't.

The minimum viable product is a powerful way to find out if your solution is going to find a market. Bean-to-bar chocolate in the US didn’t happen because someone raised millions of dollars, …

Consider purple.space a new community for professionals to connect without hustle. Peer-to-peer support, brainstorming, community workshops, coaching, dailies and more. Distributed work doesn&#8217…

In Roman times, marble sculptures were highly prized status objects. Sure, they were expensive, but more than that, they were really hard to make. Every

Here are the best career research strategies to make sure you are not heading down a dead-ends with your deliberate practice efforts.

If you knew then what you know now, would you have made the same decision? In the last fifty years, more than 25,000,000 Americans have died prematurely due to cigarette smoking. Worldwide, it&#821…

This is one of the great benefits of learning. It’s also a common challenge. When we get better at something, it is preceded by a moment of incompetence. In that moment, we’re not exact…

The three ingredients needed to apply deliberate practice to your career.

There’s been a lot of talk these days about burnout. Pushing too hard, for too long, can do a number on your mental and physical health. Comparatively little discussed is a malady that can be just as pernicious: rust out. Rust out occurs from the under use of your capabilities. Few individuals ever approach the […]

Companies love, love, love talking about how great their values are and how strong their principles are. But as we all know, talk is cheap. The great

What are your goals for this week? What are you building? What will be a good result by...

How elite coders outperform the rest

Steve Pressfield defines Resistance as the inertia, stories and excuses we manage to create to avoid powerful or creative work. Writer’s block, procrastination, overconfidence, or a belief in…

Language shapes our perception of setbacks. Use words other than "failure" to describe situations and to suggest the next step.

Why do we obsess over irrelevant personality quirks, instead of what really drives a person's success?

We often develop slang or codewords to keep the others from understanding what we’re saying. Here’s an example (thanks BK) of the lengths that some are going to be able to talk about Ch…

An echo chamber is created by a marketer to assemble a group of people who are insulated from conventional discourse. It can happen to sports and music fans, to investors, to companies that have co…