Designing Your Skill Portfolio
🌎Design your skills together, as a portfolio.Portfolios benefit from diversity and risk management. You can think about your skills in the same way.But skills are more than just a portfolio. They als...
11 Jan 202120min
Optionality Sweet Spot
Today, we talk about options. The word "optionality" typically refers to the amount of flexible agency a person has in a given scenario; not necessarily a discrete number of options, but how much lati...
6 Jan 202120min
The Dangers of Measuring Side Effects
You want to measure what matters. But your measurements might change what matters. Understanding that anything that is measured might modify behaviors, it's important to then understand what should be...
4 Jan 202120min
If Actions Speak Louder Than Words, What Are Yours Saying?
Your actions speak louder than words. You already know that. But have you asked yourself what your actions are saying about who you are?✨ Sponsor: LinodeThank you to long time sponsor and friends of t...
31 Des 202026min
Imagining the End
It's hard to construct with deconstruction in mind. It's difficult to imagine designing for final shutdown. In this episode, we talk about the importance of transformation and change, and the ultimate...
28 Des 202015min
Making Things Invisible
🌎 Things slowly fade to invisibility over time.Our conscious thinking is optimized to remove as much as possible. The more we can accomplish without hard thinking, the easier it is on our brains. As ...
23 Des 202021min
The Paradox of Transcendence
Becoming enlightened may not mean rising above everything. Instead, maybe it means zooming in. It's easy to believe that as we continue to get older, we care less and less about the details, and we ca...
21 Des 20209min
Misusing Exceptions in Code and in Life
🌎 Exceptions are UnusualExceptions are, by definition, unusual. An exception is something we wouldn't expect - out of the norm. Yet, we often craft much of our behavior around an abundance of perceiv...
16 Des 202021min
