Book Reviews
An Affirm Retrospective
No fine print. It was a few months after I started my new job at Affirm, when I noticed this literally plastered on the hallway walls leading to the company kitchens. Out of our set of company's values,…
California’s Wildfire Reckoning
The lengthy, yet just beginning wildfire season in California this year is already exhausting. Starting with the random dry lightning strikes sparking a trio of the largest wildfires our state has experienced on record, it has been one crisis after…
Getting to Distributed Teams as the Norm
The COVID-induced crisis is supposedly an accelerant of trends. If so, it seems inevitable that remote and distributed work will be rolled out and truly tested on a broad scale; many companies of the technology persuasion have been announcing their…
Organizational Flexibility
Recently, I've been helping our company make a handful of business-critical hires for the team, one of which is an open managerial role in our New York office[1]. I've long believed that hiring is a…
Mental Wellness
We’re all very tired. 2020 has so far been a living rendition of the supposed Chinese curse, “may you live in interesting times”. Given all the major events that have occurred thus far, it’s actually hard to remember…
Life After COVID-19
The drumbeat of unprecedented events come at a daily clip. Disney resorts, for the first time, shut down indefinitely. The stock market, with some of the biggest index drops ever and a place in macroeconomic history books. The highest number…
