More and more companies are using frameworks like DACI, RACI and RAPID in an attempt to improve decision-making by assigning clearer decision-making responsibilities. In theory, many of these frameworks make a lot of sense. In practice, I have not seen them work well. All of these frameworks introduce specific roles…

One of my favorite interview questions is to talk about a recent book you have read. When hiring, I am looking for a curious mind and someone who is always learning. The answers often surprise me. I often hope to hear something in the realm of management, business, or technology. …

Writing status reports is hard. Too often we write them from the author’s point of view, and do not consider the reader who may not be familiar with all the details. - Fixed Jira issues PROD-123, PROD-465, and TEST-967. - The Chalupa feature works. - Met with product management about…

When looking at new presentation tools, one requirements rises to the top: make it easier to create and tell a story so that the audience will remember it. “Great stories happen to those who can tell them” — Ira Glass In my search for better tools, I have been focusing…

Adobe announced it will be buying Figma for a whopping $20B. It made a desktop-centric creative tools company in one swoop a whole lot cooler and more relevant with the addition of a cloud-centric collaborative tool creators and designers love. LinkedIn is in need for a similar infusion of fresh…

It was cold and rainy this Christmas. We all were ready to snuggle under a blanket in front of the television. Yet, we were stuck. What shall we watch? Let’s watch again the best Christmas movie ever! The rest of the family rolled their eyes at the hint of Die…

The Kindle is an amazing product. Yet Amazon failed to build out great note, snippet and book recommendation applications. Goodreads hasn’t changed much since Amazon bought the company in 2013. The Kindle-Goodreads integration is meager: it allows you to update % complete and whether your finish the book. Amazon only…

I was a big fan of iAWriter until the recent deadlocks when using it together with DropBox to keep my files. After many months, the problem persists on both my iPad and iPhone. It clearly looks like a deadlock where the synchronization hangs, and the only remedy is a drawn…

I recently started using a new reading application called Matter (getmatter.app). The application is in an early beta. It is both brilliant and a bit confusing. The application collects articles to read later, either online or offline. In that way it is similar to Instapaper and Pocket. It has a…