Bending the universe in your favor

Know what you want out of your career, be clear and ask for it, and then make it easy for your boss or whoever can support or champion you to get you from here to there.

You are not meeting expectations. You will not be successful here if you continue on this path. I believe you can get here, but it is your responsibility.

Don't let [pace] degrade to the pace of your recurring meetings. I often find that pace of organization locks to pace of the calendar.

The universe is bendable to your will. Organizations are very fluid and I like to organize around talented motivated individuals.

Clear is kind. Conflict-avoidant, feedback-avoidant cultures degrade the talent bar.

I communicate to my leaders that my expectation is they bring in the clock speed one click faster. If you think something needs to be done this year, it needs to be done this half.

There should be no debates over what's best for product or what's best for engineering, what's best for design speed. What is best for the organization?