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Official Blog of Jesse Friedman

Jesse Friedman

Writer. Speaker. Innovator. Leader.

Writer. Speaker. Innovator. Leader.

NY — MA — RI

Stories

Accounts of things I’ve done and places I’ve found myself, told as stories rather than reports. The trips, the small adventures, the ordinary moments that turned out to matter more than they seemed to at the time. Come for the recollection and stay for the detours; here I let a good tale take its time.

  • High Tech, Low Touch

    Jesse Friedman
    10–15 minutes
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    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.

    Sunset over city San Francisco skyline and bay area highlighting a high tech, low touch environment

  • It’s only a mistake if you make it twice

    Jesse Friedman
    2–3 minutes
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    I used to encourage my teams and colleagues to ‘Celebrate Failures.’ Otherwise, we hide shared learnings from one another when we sweep mistakes under the rug in shame. The truth is, we all know this, we all fail from time to time. What’s important is learning and adapting. My idea behind celebrating failures was to…