Writing

The thinking, written down

Communication is half the job at senior altitude. A memoir excerpt from the ownership years, plus selected essays.

• Memoir The Mop Bucket MBA (excerpt) From the published memoir on leaving Microsoft to buy a franchise. A trip to Vegas with my son, and the sentence he said to me that I didn't see coming.
• Article From 25,000 emails to a second brain Digging out of a 25,000-email backlog and building the PARA system that keeps it from coming back, including the AI mistake that almost took the whole thing down with it.