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While all my writing will always be listed below, I also send out a newsletter every one or several weeks. You can view the archive here. You can sign up here.

Product

Product Management Resources
Product Interviewing
Product Frameworks
How to run a product team focused on crisis prevention
How I think about collaboration
Ideas for virtual social activities for remote teams

Career

How I think about careers
Job descriptions for future self
My experience
Problems I want to focus my career on
Learnings from 20 career mentorship sessions
How to write your own "User Manual"
Starting on a new team
Mentorship

Life

Now page
Next page
Hiatus
Leaving Lyft
I'm a white liberal and I'm part of the racial inequity problem
Ending my hiatus and starting at Facebook

Politics

No on Prop 22

Health

Coronavirus primer and why we need #TestAndTrace

Things I've read and what I took away from them

Farnam Street's series on how to read
Book notes on Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet
Book notes on White Fragility: Why It’s so hard for white people to talk about racism

Note: I'm also experimenting with a "works in progress" page.

Don't mind the dynamic module below, I'm playing around with different ways to organize my writing :)

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Learnings from 20 career mentorship sessions

Last week I offered to spend some time with folks impacted by the COVID-19 layoffs to talk through next career steps and how to get into...

Coronavirus: Why you’re stuck at home, and the fastest way out

Quick primer on why we’re in this mess, and how free “Test and Trace” can help us get out of it Many people are already doing incredible...

Leaving Lyft and starting a career hiatus

I'm leaving Lyft on March 6th and have a one-way ticket out of the country on March 11th. I'll be taking a career hiatus to focus on...

How I think about cross-functional collaboration at work

I wrote this post a couple years ago when I was supporting a large cross-functional team at Lyft. Thought it might be helpful to people...

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