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Good judgement comes from experience,
and experience comes from poor judgement.

Wait, what?

These are some of the stories about what we’ve learned, usually by screwing up. It’s also some stuff we think is fun, special, or just downright awesome.

'Let the silence do the heavy lifting' quote

Friday Randomness, Vol. 78

April 30, 2021

Specifically in our conversation about asking questions, one of the women, Cheri, made an intriguing statement: ‘Silence will do the heavy-lifting.’

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Alex Honnold Q&A in Harvard Business Review

Friday Randomness, Vol. 77

April 23, 2021

Now that I’ve achieved that life dream, nothing is calling to me as much as it did. That’s what I’m struggling with. (Spoiler: this isn’t me… )

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I said no

Friday Randomness, Vol. 76

April 16, 2021

This one is for the managers. Or those of you who are thinking of becoming a manager. Or who have been a manager. Basically, it’s for a bunch of you.

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ampersand

Friday Randomness, Vol. 75

April 9, 2021

I was reading an email over my wife’s shoulder (she loves that!). For some dorky reason, it made me think of the conjunction ‘and.’

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Anna's story

Friday Randomness, Vol. 74

April 2, 2021

During a workshop with a group of managers, I brought up the idea of having to take all the blame and pass off all the praise. It garnered a sort of visceral reaction.

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Elaine Benes gets upset over exclamation points

Friday Randomness, Vol. 73

March 26, 2021

One night a couple weeks ago, K was relaxing. She had picked a Netflix series called ‘Explained.’ Specifically, the episode about (wait for it)… exclamation marks.

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Sleeping baby

Friday Randomness, Vol. 72

March 19, 2021

I was on a call this week with a bunch of alumni from the OIA Future Leadership Academy. Something that was said struck me.

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Graph of email volumes

Friday Randomness, Vol. 71

March 12, 2021

A while ago, my older brother Cosmo posted about email on his blog. A sort of History of My Email Frequency story.

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Wenatchee High School band finds a creative solution to practicing during COVID

Friday Randomness, Vol. 70

March 5, 2021

It’s not, well, ever that our little town of Wenatchee, Washington makes national headlines.

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Kid sends an email he didn't mean to!

Friday Randomness, Vol. 69

February 26, 2021

Working with a new client, I sent their group of managers a survey through Google Forms. They found it in their spam folder. Oops.

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REI store in Olympia, Washington

Friday Randomness, Vol. 68

February 19, 2021

Oh yes, more communication-type stuff this week. My thought: past tense and present tense.

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I'm not a cat lawyer

Friday Randomness, Vol. 67

February 12, 2021

This is for all of us who have spent way too much time over the past twelve months staring at ourselves and lots of other people through our computer screens.

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