I recently enrolled in Terra.do’s Climate School. Our First Assignment was imagining how we might get to Carbon Zero by 2040. As you will see I’m optimistic. Carbon Zero: How we did it. Eighteen years ago it was far from assured we would keep greenhouse gases under the level to keep warming below 1.5deg C. The…

How to Move People through Turbulent Transitions and Uncertainty The key to success is adaptability. Transitions, however, can be brutal. If something goes wrong this will be where. As they say in the monastery, “All practice is for the next phrase transition”. A smooth transition requires shepherding. Here is how. …

Things I believe have been undervalued or devalued by our society. Resiliency Resilient systems have slack. They continue to function when circumstances change drastically. A resilient economy has safety nets and extra capacity. A resilient system adapts to change. Instead our economic systems have been optimized for hyper efficiency. They are…

Recently I’ve been getting feedback that I always say what’s on my mind and ask for what I need. And while if you had asked me I would have said, “No I only say about 10% of what is on my mind”, if I observe myself and others then yes…

company growing x 100% wfh x cross-functional people === communications gridlock — TENSION As the number of people we work with grows the number of communications between them greatly increases. In order to keep focus to get our tasks done each of us creates a strategy for coping with the communication overwhelm, such as; optimize availability (allow interruption), optimize current task (notifications off)…

(in hindsight obvious, while trying not so) So a few months ago, I wanted to set an `id` on a react-native-web (RNW) View component <View id="newsletter"/> But that doesnt work. Turns out in order to maintain compatibility with ReactNative, RNW uses `nativeID` This is in the docs, but I somehow…

Inspired by Dan Abramov’s Things I don’t know 1. Never have I worked at a place which used an RDBMS as its primary persistent data store. Mongo, Redis, API’s pumping out to external providers, and blockchains, have been the backbone of the Apps I have helped to create. Therefore I am not much of an SQL genius. A certain company which used Mongo as its primary store did…

I had a phone interview for a new job a few weeks ago. As the call went on I found myself willfully going out of my way to basically disqualify myself from the position; explaining quite gleefully how didn’t know this and only had some limited experience in that. All…

This is a piece on offense. It’s about fear and sex. It’s about the culture war. It’s about identity, and marginalization, and victimization. It’s paradox and power. And mostly it’s about shame. There is a article in my Medium Drafts, written by me just 4 years ago entitled “Nerds are…