Martin Sheen and a romantic military trope explain corporate reality 1st Lieutenant Rowan spent eight days on horseback traversing the mountains of Cuba, though I like picturing him in the jungle | Credit: Mike Blank Harvard Business School graduates consider themselves extremely entitled. Or so the reputation goes. Yet the same is said of millennials or,…
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A primer for the easiest job around (for those who don’t do it) Acting the Part | Credit: Kyle Head A conundrum I tell everyone that product management is common sense. Yet you probably need this guide to do it. Until you can reconcile this, you have much to learn. Step 1: Gird thyself Product management (PM) can…
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Clowns-as-a-Service is gonna be huge. Photo by Wesley Tingey on Unsplash Clowns-as-a-Service At more than one company, I have been called “the namer of things” or “He who names things.” (Okay, I capitalized “H” myself.) In a recent conversation with a product colleague, we discussed an idea that he and several others had been touting for almost…
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Part one — in verse Photo by You X Ventures on Unsplash Manifesto scribbling probably comes naturally to some people. Like Luddite serial killers. But I have no idea how to write one. So I’ll start mine like a children’s story. Once there was a project called Bluefin, a code name for sure to keep truth in to thwart…
Read MoreWhat squirrels can teach us about office manipulators “highway road photo” by Alexandre Godreau on Unsplash Once I got run over once, the temptation was to become hyperaware of this new reality. I began to see specters where none existed. Toast Protocol An oncoming car approaches. After a moment of frozen panic, a squirrel usually darts towards…
Read MoreLeprechauns make mayhem. Wizards make a raucous. Photo by Amy Reed on Unsplash Magically delicious. I mean, they’re frosted. So of course they’re going to be fucking delicious. But magical, too? Count this kid in. Fun fact: Lucky the Leprechaun has an alias. His drinking buddies supposedly call him “Sir Charms.” (That’s like believing that other people…
Read More“A low shot…” by ALP STUDIO on Unsplash A gnat committed suicide in my eye last night. That was in the 5th inning of a playoff baseball game. There were bugs everywhere. The home team was trailing. My son Casey scored the tying run. No, his name’s not actually Casey. They won. They’re the Nationals. The…
Read MoreCUTS LIKE A KNIFE…HAND Photo by Jason Briscoe on Unsplash Karate Girl. She’s not a kid. She’s a girl. Who does karate. In the same way that there is an objective answer to the worst two hours of TV ever (Star Wars Holiday Special, 1978), there is a correct conclusion regarding the worst death scene in…
Read MoreIraq Shooting Range (US Army) Home on the range A story oft repeated at the Naval Academy was that a single SEAL Team shoots more small-arms ammunition in a single year than the entire U.S. Marine Corps. Whether that technically holds up, the staggering implication is indeed true: The only thing stopping us from shooting more…
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