Hidden Judgments

Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker. Dagobert D. Runes I have had a number of labels in my life, just like all of us.  Clearly labels can have obvious and negative sources of bias, and without discounting that, I want to talk about a more

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Lessons from Theranos… Trust and Fear

I have just finished reading Bad Blood by John Carreyrou, the detailed story of Theranos and its eccentric founder Elizabeth Holmes.  The story itself is as captivating as it is bewildering.  A remarkable and incredibly well researched account, it has a lot of lessons that should be clear to startups and

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New adventures!

Its been another while since my last post, but I’d like to elaborate a little bit on what was motivating that post and what happened immediately after that post… In early 2017, my time at the National Restaurant Association came to end when I was asked to move to Chicago,

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My take on management

I have had the question posed to me… what is your management style? I have been thinking about it a lot. I have been thinking about how the last 3 years has shaped how I do things now through managing programmers, non-programmers and consultants. My philosophy of management is four

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