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The Hidden Drags That Undermine Team Leadership Effectiveness
In 2026, the difference between thriving and surviving will come down to efficiency. And I’m not referring to the obligatory mechanical kind powered by automation, which we are all going to have to adopt, but the human kind: the ability to lead a lightweight, focused team that cuts through challenges and adapts to challenges on…
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On The Sacred Act of Distraction Free Writing
I am back from my three-month sabbatical; an amazing benefit Automatticians receive every 5 years. I spent a significant portion of that time reading and writing (distraction free writing that is). After some accounting I put the count north of 100,000 words. Some went towards a thriller I’m writing. Others went to journal entries, reflections…
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High Tech, Low Touch
A high tech, low touch journey through San Francisco’s transportation layers—from legacy taxis to runaway Waymos—and what it reveals about empathy, experience, and the systems we’re building.
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The Hidden Drags That Undermine Team Leadership Effectiveness
In 2026, the difference between thriving and surviving will come down to efficiency. And I’m not referring to the obligatory mechanical kind powered by automation, which we are all going to have to adopt, but the human kind: the ability to lead a lightweight, focused team that cuts through challenges and adapts to challenges on…
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On The Sacred Act of Distraction Free Writing
I am back from my three-month sabbatical; an amazing benefit Automatticians receive every 5 years. I spent a significant portion of that time reading and writing (distraction free writing that is). After some accounting I put the count north of 100,000 words. Some went towards a thriller I’m writing. Others went to journal entries, reflections…
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Brutally Honest
We wish for the courage to be brutally honest, forgetting to wish for the empathy to know when honesty becomes brutal. – Jesse Friedman
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Brutally Honest
We wish for the courage to be brutally honest, forgetting to wish for the empathy to know when honesty becomes brutal. – Jesse Friedman
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Banana
Times Square has an unnatural resonance, one you cannot become attuned to. It hums from electrified currents pumped into sky-high advertisements. It buzzes from worker bees shuffling across cement pathways. It aches as black and yellow caravans ebb and flow through its arteries. But there is nothing natural here. Nothing grows here. It is a…
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Banana
Times Square has an unnatural resonance, one you cannot become attuned to. It hums from electrified currents pumped into sky-high advertisements. It buzzes from worker bees shuffling across cement pathways. It aches as black and yellow caravans ebb and flow through its arteries. But there is nothing natural here. Nothing grows here. It is a…
