• Your Org Is a Product

    Last week I met a friend of mine for coffee to talk about our jobs (we're both still relatively new at our respective companies), challenges we're...

  • The Sliding Scale of Giving a Fuck

    During my first big project at Etsy, completely overhauling our Item Reviews system, I was paired with Andrew Morrison, an incredibly talented...

  • Letting Go As a Manager

    Anytime I talk to designers about what it means to be a manager, there's always a lot of concern over two things: what it means to stop doing...

  • How I Focus

    This weekend, I was listening to an episode of Back to Work (one of my favorite podcasts) in which Merlin and Dan were discussing focus and...

  • The Fine Art of Bridge Building

    You and a group of friends are living on the edge of a canyon. You live well enough, eating the pineapples that grow in abundance on this side of the...

  • Scaling Design

    After writing about how the first few weeks at BuzzFeed have been going, I got a few requests for more details on how I'm approaching the needs of...

  • A Few Traits of Successful Managers

    I've been thinking a lot lately about what makes great managers great. The craft itself is pretty nebulous to describe, because the needs and...

  • Two Weeks at BuzzFeed

    As one could probably guess, I've been a little heads-down the last couple of weeks on-boarding at my shiny new job. Luckily, I have friends like...

  • 17 Reasons I'm Joining BuzzFeed

    For the last couple of months, I've been talking with a lot of companies, founders and design teams about what my next move should be. It's been an...

  • Appreciation

    Every quarter when I collect and review feedback for the people I manage, I, of course, spend quite a bit of time thinking through my own...