Creating images with generative systems like MidJourney, Dall·e and similar can be fun and useful, but many people struggle to control the aesthetic style of the image, especially when trying to create multiple images within a series. This happens for a couple reasons, the most basic is that people underestimate…

Take the best of being a designer and create a durable playbook for handling challenges as a manager — Motivation Models In design management, understanding the motivations driving your team members is akin to grasping the user needs in a design project. Just as a meticulous designer employs a blend of design thinking and research methodologies to delve into the user’s psyche, a thoughtful manager can adapt these…

How to optimize your time (and calendar!) to be happier & more effective at work — Work is never-ending, there will always be more work, the second your finish one meeting, project, or task, there will be another waiting, and if there isn’t you’ll find one or make one up. It took me years to get to where I am now with calendar management, and it’s…

Self-assessments & promo statements that get results for you and your team. — Why write self-assessments at all? For many people, writing a self-assessment is part of their reoccurring performance review process, but did anyone ever actually teach you how to do it? Writing about your own accomplishments can be difficult for a multitude of reasons. You don’t remember all the things you did, you don’t know what…

Growing your processes, not just your team — I’ve managed teams between 5 to over 50 people, grown teams from zero to 20 in less than a year, and manage project portfolios that were a single tightly related product with a small number of features to a monolith like Google Search with 7+ distinct product areas with tenuous…