I’m coming up on a year of posting consistently. I’ll write a longer piece on what I’ve learned from that around the anniversary next month, but as I sit here now, one thing stands out: the best time to write is either very early in the morning or very late at night. When the house…

Hey Everyone, I’m back after an unplanned two-week break. No big crisis, just a creative lull. I’ve always believed if you have nothing worth saying, it’s fine to say nothing. But I’d like to get back to a weekly rhythm. Oliver Burkeman, one of my favorite writers, only posts, The Imperfectionist, twice a month. I want to…

The term “work-life balance” has become ubiquitous in modern professional discourse, but the term itself is flawed. By positioning work and life as opposing forces, we’re setting ourselves up for an endless tug-of-war where one always seems to come at the expense of the other. We find ourselves thinking about home when we’re at work…

I’m writing this while sitting in line outside Best Buy. I got a tip they were restocking the Nintendo Switch 2, which has been sold out everywhere since launch. My son Sage’s 8th birthday is on Saturday, and this was pretty much my last hope to get him one in time. I know it’s cliché…

I recently received my 5-year milestone award signed by Tim Cook in the mail. Although I’m still a month shy of my true anniversary at Apple, receiving it prompted me to reflect on what I’ve learned during this transformative period. Here are five key lessons from my half decade at one of the world’s most…

The Three Essentials for Great Business Operations Operations is the heartbeat of a business. It’s what keeps everything running, when it works well, nobody notices. When it fails, everything catches fire. You can have the best product, the best strategy, and the best vision in the world, but if your operations are a mess, you’re just a…

Why the hardest times are the ones we look back on the most fondly I got to catch up with a college buddy recently. As our kids played together, we talked about life, what’s next, and where we had been. A lot of the conversation reminded me of a previous article I had written called Intentional…

I’ve been researching emotional intelligence lately, driven by team conflicts I’ve been navigating. The hardest part about managing teams isn’t the strategy or the metrics, it’s working with so many different personalities, each with their own goals and motivations. A colleague once told me, “Managing people would be so much easier if it weren’t for…

This week, I had the rare opportunity to sit in on a fireside chat with Admiral (Ret.) William McRaven—a four-star Navy SEAL who led U.S. Special Operations Command during the War on Terror, delivered UT Austin’s now-famous “Make Your Bed” commencement address, authored multiple bestselling books, served as Chancellor of the University of Texas System, and now…

I’m dropping back to one article a week. I tried doubling the pace to build a daily writing habit, but it backfired. I was writing less, not more, procrastinating until the night before, sometimes the morning of. It’s hard to write about something meaningful when you just wrote something two days ago. Ideas need time…