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The Stressless Manifesto

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Disclaimer: This is not another self-help pitch.

Given Amazon returns over 31,000 books on stress, and WebMD has aStress Management Center,” there are plenty of other more qualified places you could go to for “tips and tricks.”

This is about stress and work, more specifically, your life at work.

This manifesto is a statement of the principles by which I intend to live. If you believe the same, I’d invite you to sign it by adding a comment below.

A Defense of Grad School

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Last month, a few other young professionals, namely Nicole Crimaldi, Matt Cheuvront, and (to some extent) Shane Mac suggested that the best education is self-education.

As one who loves a good debate, and as someone who’s always been sympathetic to the side of traditional education, I decided to interview Cali Harris (@caligater) who recently quit her job to pursue her Masters full-time. She’s the real deal. The video interview and a recap (with my 2 cents thrown in) are below:

Fail Fast, Fail Cheap applies to your career, too.

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
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image credit: Joe Loong

To be honest, this post has less to do with failure and more to do with personal innovation from within the corporate structure—the struggle to make change happen, to get your ideas implemented if you aren’t in a senior leadership position.

The Math of Fast and Cheap

In 2007, Doug Hall suggested that businesses should Fail Fast, Fail Cheap when it comes to innovation. Specifically he showed the business sense of failing quickly and cheaply: