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A way of thinking about a decision you can actually apply — how to weigh reversible against irreversible choices, how to tell a positioning problem from a performance one, how to decide when the information is incomplete. Structure you can use on Monday.
The same problems recur across careers, companies and lives. What capable people consistently get wrong about plateaus, what founders miss about their own role, why the obvious problem is rarely the real one. Anonymised, always.
Philosophy, psychology, mythology, technology — and where they turn out to be about the same thing. Occasionally something I had wrong and have since changed my mind about.
I run MasterMynd alongside a full-time engineering leadership role. That means I write when I have something worth sending, not when a content calendar says to.
Some months that’s twice. Some months it’s nothing at all.
I would rather send you four things you actually read than fifty you delete.
Ex-Amazon, Microsoft, Adobe, Symantec, Zillow. Built and scaled a company. Serial entrepreneur. Led global engineering teams. Rebuilt after failure, loss and reinvention.
Corporate life, entrepreneurship, technology and AI, and personal reinvention — most important problems turn out to be systems problems disguised as individual problems, and the perspective here comes from having been inside all four.
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