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Learned Resilience explores how growth emerges at the edge of discomfort. Instead of shrinking from what makes us nervous, we can learn to engage it through right-sized challenges that expand our capacity. This perspective reframes fear, tension, and uncertainty as signals of potential rather than threats to avoid. Over time, leaning into these moments shifts us away from learned helplessness and toward a more adaptive, resilient way of living. Read More
Trust but Clarify is a valuable practice often overlooked in many analyzing data rituals. We may follow best practices for bringing the most value to customers. Yet, we may still go awry if we simply follow principle and trust completely what the data is telling us. Read More
At IMVU, we focused on hiring and developing engineers that loved challenges and loved to iterate and move fast. This included an interview process where each question was set up to get harder and harder. This was done until we had pushed beyond the candidates comfort zone. Read More
Imagine you had aliens as customers. From my experience, this is much better than assuming we know them well and completely understand what would best serve them. If they are alien to you: Start Small and Iterate build-measure-learn Get to MVP quickly. Validate by testing variants. Use small steps to continuously innovate and iterate to… Read More