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Schedule Better

March 15, 2021 by Jon Douglas

If your job requires more than one or two scheduled events in a typical week, you probably aren’t leveraging a scheduling service, online assistant, or even your own office hours. Let’s talk about that more. I work as a Technical Product Manager where a large amount of time is spent in scheduled events. These are …

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Self-Managing

March 5, 2021 by Jon Douglas

There’s one thing I’ve started to realize over 10 years in the software industry. That is, the most impactful contributors are ones who are self-managing. These are the people who will go out and find the right things to do, and simply go do them. Much of the time, managers are pleasers, not leaders. Many …

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Let’s Not Meet

February 25, 2021 by Jon Douglas

Before you read this post, please take a minute to pickup Andy Grove’s High Output Management book. You won’t regret it. Meetings have a notorious history of being net negative to majority of people involved. Studies have even been done to show that over 50% of manager’s time is dedicated to meetings. Many would argue …

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How To Kill Innovation

February 23, 2021 by Jon Douglas

I’ve read a lot of books about innovation. I’ve read some of the most popular books on the topic, and also some hot takes from individuals leading the most innovative companies today. There’s one thing that sticks out when it comes down to innovation, and that’s how far an idea actually goes. Simply put, some …

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The First Principle of Thinking for Yourself

February 22, 2021 by Jon Douglas

Humans are lazy by design. We tend to follow the path of least resistance. When we do this, we fall into bad habits of letting other people think for us rather than using the most important tool that’s just a thought away. Don’t know how to do a home improvement project? You watch a tutorial …

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Stoic Triforce

February 17, 2021 by Jon Douglas

About three years ago, I got into the idea of stoicism. If you’re not sure what that is exactly, it’s an old school of thought based on three principles: Taking responsibility (Top) Living life to the fullest (Left) Focusing on what you control (Right) While reading a bit about stoicism, you might just think that …

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Remote First

February 10, 2021 by Jon Douglas

I’ve worked remotely my entire professional career. I’m probably one of the first generations to have had this luxury to do so for the past 10 years(I started when I was 19 years old). When I started college, I got two part-time jobs on campus doing web apps & mobile apps for all the various …

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Fast Brain, Slow Mind

February 9, 2021 by Jon Douglas

Have you ever had a shower thought where everything starts to suddenly make sense? I’ve been having these more and more often when I’m relaxing, exercising, or even showering. I wondered how I could optimally get in the state where my subconscious would do all the work for me, and I’m sharing that with you …

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Fear of Failing

February 8, 2021 by Jon Douglas

Four years ago I sat down & told myself that I wanted to create content. It was only two years ago that I actually started to seriously create. Why did it take over two years to take action? Let me tell you. I’m a recovering perfectionist. If something wasn’t done perfect in my eyes, it …

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Smart vs. Creative

February 6, 2021 by Jon Douglas

One quote that I’ve kept near & dear to my heart whenever I’m working in a group setting is “If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room”. This mantra has served me quite well throughout my life but it has it’s limitations. At a certain point, you will be apart …

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