Enterprise sales are chains of cross-team handoffs, but managers rarely have visibility outside their silo. The predictable outcome is local optimization. What if you zoom out? Continue reading...
This past year, much of my reading was inspired by my travels. Mexico, Vienna, Budapest, and South Africa (photos coming soon) shaped the book list to help me make sense of where I was. That ended up pulling me toward novels and histories about memory, power, and exile. I also read a few classics, and theories of how knowledge and our models shape the world. A few fluffy books on business leadership and strategy round out the selection. The question underneath most of them was how do our ideas about money, identity, justice, even literature itself, end up remaking the worlds they describe? Continue reading...
Following our Vienna visit, we headed to Budapest. We could immediately tell Budapest was the poorer sibling. It felt a lot more run down, but the city is still beautiful, has a lot of history, great wine, and many things to see and do. Continue reading...
Earlier this year, together with my brothers and their families, we booked a trip to Vienna and followed it up with a few days in Budapest. This was the first time we were all on a vacation together in a long time. After years of asking for it, my mom finally got her wish to do a big family trip where no one was working part time.
We took a lot of photos on everyone’s cell phones, but I brought my film camera and did my usual street photography thing. Results below. I also got a disposable camera for each of my nephews and nieces (yes, even the 2 year old). Those I’m keeping out of the blog but needless to say, they were a lot of fun to look through. More...
Imagine each of us surrounded by content, tools, and teachers that know us intimately and reflect us back perfectly, but which have little in common with what others are experiencing. Continue reading...