Product Design Leadership
“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.” ― William Blake
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Every leader in tech should put down their steaming hot cup of hubris, and read this.
“The most dangerous person on your team isn’t the loudest critic or the lowest performer. It’s the one who has quietly decided they don’t belong here.”
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Leaders of companies that made the leap from average performance to sustained greatness shared an unexpected trait: Humility. It improves judgment, opens the door to others’ expertise and helps to ensure success does not become complacency.
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People do not follow simply because of titles or authority. Every interaction with a leader is filtered through a set of implicit questions: Does this person make things better? Can I trust them? Do they help me succeed?
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These skills are intangible, yes, but by no means are they soft. They’re hard because they are often unspoken, unlearned, and underappreciated, so we ignore their import, erroneously, and, therefore, suffer from the repercussions.
www.fastcompany.com/91547022/why...
I get the biz strategy here that people get more valuable the longer they stay and that this is a savvy retention play by Loveable, but it certainly has nothing to do with curing a toxic work culture. In fact, in some places, you might be perpetuating one instead.
techcrunch.com/2026/05/07/c...
On Children: Poignant Parenting Advice from Kahlil Gibran
What does it mean to raise a child with the dignity of being an unrepeatable miracle of atoms that have never before constellated and will never again constellate in that exact way? www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/14/o...
This seems so obvious I'm not sure why it needed a study to prove it or an article to explain it.
"We found that those who had previously reported the highest levels of thwarted impact were almost five times more likely to have quit."
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"The real competitive advantage will belong to the people who can still think critically, identify unmet human needs, connect disparate ideas, challenge assumptions and shape coherent experiences in an increasingly noisy world."
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It's possible to build better things in the world. Collectively, we can accomplish a lot.
Humility may be one of the most misunderstood dimensions of character. This article describes what it is, why it matters and how to develop it.
Wait, what do you mean it's Thursday, it was just Monday yesterday
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Anuj Ahooja
Prisonculture
Organizations often assume leadership succeeds or fails because of a leader’s style. But research on follower psychology suggests the bigger issue is alignment: Employees judge leaders based on whethe...
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself… You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. …
