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  • Marty Cagan joins me for real talk about what it takes to transform into a strong product company.

    You can read the episode transcript here.

    Topics discussed:

    (00:00) The process and challenges in writing a book

    (12:27) Real world products need tech for results

    (17:28) Deciding on investments, solving problems, and changing processes

    (28:11) Understanding disconnects

    (36:00) Top leadership support crucial

    (40:28) How product coaches help

    (44:57) "Being agile" doesn't always mean "doing agile"

    (49:52) Handling objections well

    (54:45) How it comes together in an organizational operating model

    Links & resources mentioned:

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    Marty Cagan

    • LinkedIn, website

    • New book: TRANSFORMED

    • Previous books: INSPIRED, EMPOWERED

    • SVPG

    Related episodes:

    • #31 Marty Cagan - Empowering product teams

    Books:

    • The Crux

    • Good Strategy, Bad Strategy

    • The Art of Action

    Other resources:

    • Product Management Theater

    • Product Leadership Theater

    • Transformation Theater

    • So You Want To Write a Book?



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  • Randy Silver is a product leadership advisor, podcast host, and global product community weaver. We explore the conversations needed to drive impact and perception of value.

    You can also read this episode here.

    Topics discussed:

    (04:00) Moving from a journalistic editor to product editor

    (07:34) Parallels between product management film production

    (09:53) Missed opportunities & the need for collaboration

    (15:21) Alignment with stakeholders

    (18:24) Sales misalignment and restructures

    (21:10) Diagnosing teamwork challenges with partners

    (25:02) Diagnosing your new org via informational interviews

    (28:05) Creating a manager README

    (30:11) Roles and responsibilities convo for better understanding

    (35:19) Guiding conversations and change

    (44:22) Did reorganization at Airbnb address strategy misalignment?

    (46:18) Defensive reaction within product community to Airbnb

    (52:14) Coordinating while scaling

    Links & resources mentioned

    Find the full transcript at: https://podcast.makethingsthatmatter.com/randy-silver-conversations-create-impact#transcript

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    Randy Silver: website, LinkedIn, Twitter

    • MTP talk: “Getting aligned with your exec team by Randy Silver”

    • Podcast: The Product Experience

    • Book: “What Do We Do Now? A Product Manager’s Guide to Strategy in the Time of Crisis”

    • The product environment canvas

    • Stakeholder Informational interview template

    Related episodes:

    • Andrew on Randy’s podcast, The Product Experience

    • #72 Pam Fox Rollin: Growing groups into teams

    • #44 Teresa Torres: Habits for clear thinking and better product bets

    • #18 Josh Seiden: Create clarity with outcomes thinking

    • #5 Rich Mironov: Building a thriving product organization

    • #3 Christina Wodtke: Unleashing potential with extraordinary teams

    People & orgs:

    • Georgie Smallwood

    • Matt LeMay

    • Alan Albert - value based pricing

    • Itamar Gilad

    Books:

    • Growing Groups Into Teams

    • Evidence Guided

    • The Team That Managed Itself

    • Continuous Discovery Habits

    • Outcomes Over Output

    • Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management

    Other resources:

    • Product, it’s time to grow up

    • The 11 Laws of Showrunning

    • Rich Mironov: The slippery slope of sales-led development

    • The Journey to Empowered Teams - Twitter, Airbnb & Tumblr

    • Product Strategy Acid Test

    • OODA loop

    • Manager README: The Indispensable Document for the Modern Manager

    • Roman Pichler - the decision making chart

    • Relentless equanimity



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  • Chris Smith is a longtime engineering leader who has been in the trenches of building with AI & machine learning for years. This is a short, bonus episode to go along with our main conversation: https://pod.fo/e/20a5ef

    Topics discussed:

    (00:00) AI tooling allows for cost-effective testing.

    (06:02) Scoring and statistical measures to track progress.

    (09:22) Costs if model needs rebuilding or hyperparameter tuning

    (11:31) Order of magnitude investment estimates

    (15:10) Decide upfront when to cut bait.

    (17:12) Investment essentials for meaningful results and outcomes.



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  • Chris Smith is a longtime engineering leader who has been in the trenches of building with AI & machine learning for years. He’s led the development of data systems & strategies at tech giants like early Google, Yahoo, and Sun; S&P 500's like Live Nation; and a wide variety of startups.

    Topics discussed:

    (00:00) AI industry at inflection point, causing chaos

    (09:05) Machine learning, neural nets, and generative AI

    (14:03) Generative AI: LLMs + broad understanding

    (21:56) Open source models improve specialized problem solving

    (25:06) Access to data leads to competitive advantage

    (32:53) AI training improves productivity and learning speed

    (42:51) Reduced investment in GPT models speeds results

    (48:47) Expectation mismatch leads to brand perception risks

    (53:54) Non-technical work is crucial for AI product success

    (57:30) Building a computer vision product from scratch

    (01:03:14) A strategic approach to refining and testing prototypes

    (01:08:04) Closing learning loops

    Links & resources mentioned

    Find the full transcript at: https://podcast.makethingsthatmatter.com/chris-smith-how-to-add-ai-to-product/#transcript

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    Chris Smith:

    • LinkedIn

    • X / Twitter: @xcbsmith

    • Bluesky @xcbsmith

    Related episodes:

    • #75 Chris Smith: Simple guidelines for AI investment sizing

    People & orgs:

    • Dr. Marily Nika - AI Lead, Meta Reality Lab

    • Travis Corrigan - Head of Product, Smith.AI

    Books:

    • Evidence Guided - Itamar Gilad

    Other resources:

    • GPT = “generative pre-trained transformer”

    • Wizard of Oz experiment

    • Tom Chi - learning loop

    • Joel Spolsky: The iceberg secret, revealed

    • ML Ops

    • Computer vision

    • Precision-Recall curves

    • Leaked Google memo: “There is no moat”

    • Universal basic income (UBI)

    • Stop-loss order



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  • Nacho Bassino is a veteran product leader and the author of Product Direction, one of my go-to books on how to actually generate a product strategy. There are many excellent books out there on strategy as a whole, but surprisingly few that specifically cover product strategy.

    Topics discussed:

    (00:02:12) Nacho's journey into product leadership

    (00:09:23) How leaders can adapt to others' communication and cross-cultural preferences

    (00:10:50) Strategy: defining problems and prioritizing solutions

    (00:19:44) Painful, but typical; a fake strategy

    (00:24:20) Time and team needed for first big strategy creation

    (00:30:17) Three key aspects of quarterly reviews: OKRs, roadmaps, and Opportunity Solution Trees

    (00:35:33) Connection between impact, outcomes, and initiatives with revenue generation

    (00:40:11) Empowerment: teams' accountability and autonomy

    (00:51:36) Nacho's hard product leadership call

    (00:58:15) Strategy for startups vs larger companies

    (00:59:02) How the opportunity space expands with company growth

    Links & resources mentioned

    Find the full transcript at: https://podcast.makethingsthatmatter.com/nacho-bassino-build-your-first-product-strategy/#transcript

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    • Nacho Bassino: Website, LinkedIn

    • Book: Product Direction

    • Podcast: 100 Product Strategies

    Related episodes:

    • #68 Adam Thomas: Operationalizing product strategy

    Books:

    • Product Direction

    • The Culture Map

    • Playing to Win

    • Product Roadmaps Relaunched

    Other resources and articles:

    • A product strategy acid test

    • What is "strategy"?

    • Burnout as a strategy problem

    • Should leaders be prescriptive about strategy?

    • Product strategy: focus vs prioritization

    • Does strategy matter before product-market fit (PMF)?

    • Execs care about revenue. How do we get them to care about outcomes?



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  • Pam Fox Rollin is an executive coach and strategist. This is a conversation about the conversations that leaders are not having. These are THE difference between building a truly committed team that delivers the future you care about… and having a group which is a team in name only.

    Topics discussed:

    (00:03:55) Writing a book about teams as a team.

    (00:11:41) Teamwork failure due to individual mindset silos.

    (00:14:51) Telling the difference between hard work and commitment

    (00:18:40) OKRs align and drive team objectives.

    (00:20:54) Incentive structures and team behaviors

    (00:24:02) Shared promise vital for effective team; align goals and coordinate efforts.

    (00:28:25) Leaders build futures that matter through conversations.

    (00:33:08) Finance team doubts engineering's budget needs.

    (00:36:23) Trust: vulnerability in actions and five dimensions.

    (00:38:21) Dimensions of trust

    (00:42:23) Design conversations as a leader to level up.

    (00:46:01) Challenges of remote work and trust.

    (00:49:05) Missing conversations hinder team building efforts.

    (00:53:44) Collaboration needed in achieving desired outcomes.

    Links & resources mentioned

    Find the full transcript at: https://podcast.makethingsthatmatter.com/pam-fox-rollin-growing-groups-into-teams/#transcript

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    * Pam Fox Rollin: LinkedIn, Altus Growth Partners

    * New book: Growing Groups Into Teams

    * Altus’ Growth podcast: Missing Conversations

    Related episodes:

    * #22 Pam Fox Rollin: Be a leader who helps people come alive

    People & orgs:

    * Bob Dunham - Institute for Generative Leadership

    Books:

    * Growing Groups Into Teams

    * The Thin Book of Trust - Charles Feltman

    Other resources:

    * IBM study: “Augmented work for an automated, AI-driven world”

    * Paper: On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B



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  • Zooming in on three common change management issues: forecasting, role transitions, and departmental power dynamics.

    Topics discussed

    (00:03:01) Companies transforming into product organizations

    (00:05:01) Revenue shift: smaller now, longer-term impact

    (00:08:30) Practical topics: forecasting, transition, change management

    (00:10:04) Identifying leading measures and assumptions in forecasts

    (00:14:25) Seeking tech-enabled scale, revenue visibility, innovation

    (00:20:29) Power shifts in organizations impact staffing and funding

    (00:22:12) Evolving organizational model for product-centric strategy

    (00:27:23) Key considerations for acquiring a company: purpose, integration, impact

    (00:31:18) Leaders modeling simple mental health practices shift organizations. Organizational change requires supporting structures and models

    (00:35:38) Quieting the mind to connect and trust

    (00:37:33) Organizations need specific change management for success

    (00:40:40) "Name fears, tame them; face personal insecurities."

    Links & resources mentioned

    Full transcript at: https://podcast.makethingsthatmatter.com/eisha-armstrong-pragmatic-change-management-strategies/#transcript

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    * Guest: Eisha Tierney Armstrong - LinkedIn

    * Book: Fearless: How to Transform a Services Culture and Successfully Productize

    Related episodes:

    * #2 Barry O’Reilly: Unlearning and creating culture change

    * #9 Amy Edmondson: Building teams where people feel safe

    * #59 Kenny Borg: Identity transformation and embodying fulfillment

    Books:

    * Fearless: How to Transform a Services Culture and Successfully Productize (Eisha’s book)

    * "Leading Change" by John Kotter

    * “Managing Transitions: Making the Most of the Change” by William Bridges



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  • MJ Jastrebski is the CPO of Stylitics, a rapidly scaling retail technology company that helps retail websites automate styling and bundling for their consumers.

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    In this episode, we cover:

    (00:07:20) Understanding product roles/levels, influence, and career growth.

    (00:13:10) Product and process management at different levels.

    (00:19:22) Leadership training emphasizes accountability among executive teams, prioritizing cross-functional exec peer relationships & alignment.

    (00:28:27) The importance of buoyancy.

    (00:36:17) How mindfulness and empathy are important for effective leadership.

    (00:43:41) What Stylitics is doing and how it's scaling up

    (00:47:12) Expanding internationally and into new verticals. Emphasis on shipping and team muscle building.

    (00:55:38) Creating product families to address pain points, setting expectations, iterating with alpha, beta, and GA stages, building retailer relationships, understanding different market needs.

    (01:02:08) Changing roles, building skills, and evolving identity.

    (01:11:30) Creating psychological safety is crucial for innovation. It allows people to take risks without fear of judgment or failure. This enables organizations to gather more information and make better decisions.

    Links & resources mentioned

    • You can end episode feedback on Twitter @askotzko , or via email

    • Guest: MJ Jastrebski & Stylitics

    Related episodes:

    • Mike Saloio: Leadership, meditation, ego, and ubuntu

    • Amy Edmondson: Building teams where people feel safe

    • Kenny Borg: Identity transformation

    People & orgs:

    • Stylitics

    • Carlota Perez

    Books:

    • Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages

    • The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

    • Multipliers

    Other resources:

    • Give away your legos

    • How to craft your product team at every stage, from pre-PMF to hypergrowth

    • The 3 lenses of innovation



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  • It's been quiet around here because I'm in deep in the creative process of reimagining this show, and I need your help. Podcast analytics are terrible, and I want to know more about YOU.

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  • Donna Lichaw is an executive coach for unconventional leaders, and the author of the newly-released book The Leader’s Journey.

    Donna brings a background in design and product to her executive coaching and helps unconventional leaders take control of the story to drive impact for themselves and within their teams. We go deep on:

    * how to handle managing our own stories in healthy conflict

    * creating psychological safety

    * what it looks like to “give yourself an A” so you feel freed up to invent new possibilities

    Listen now on Apple, Spotify, Google, Overcast, or Youtube.

    Links & resources

    * Send episode feedback on Twitter @askotzko , or via email

    * Donna Lichaw: website, LinkedIn, Twitter

    * Donna’s new book: The Leader’s Journey

    Related episodes:

    * Mike Saloio: Leadership, meditation, ego, and ubuntu

    People & orgs:

    * Neuroleadership Institute

    Books:

    * The Art of Possibility

    * Rethinking Positive Thinking

    * The Upside Of Your Dark Side

    * Nonviolent Communication

    * Radical Candor

    Other resources:

    * Donna’s toolkit

    * The SCARF model (psych safety)

    * 3F model



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  • Adam Thomas is a coach that helps product teams operationalize strategy so they spend more time focused on building the right products and less time fighting fires.

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    * Adam Thomas: website, LinkedIn, Twitter

    * Adam’s Maven workshop: Survival Metrics

    Related episodes:

    * Melissa Perri: Product strategy and the missing middle

    Books and media:

    * Good Strategy, Bad Strategy

    * The Crux

    Other resources:

    * Warhammer 40K

    Timestamps:

    [00:01:48] War gaming shaped product strategy

    [00:03:22] Warhammer 40K

    [00:07:11] Michael Jordan's Winning Shot

    [00:11:22] The whole person equation

    [00:14:15] Emotions in the workplace

    [00:17:54] Survival metrics

    [00:23:08] Implementing survival metrics

    [00:27:26] Trust issues in product development

    [00:30:05] Internal value exchange

    [00:34:33] Being "Product Led" is Misleading

    [00:36:26] Using survival metrics consistently

    [00:39:23] Focusing on important outcomes

    [00:45:12] Complying with regulations in finance

    [00:50:13] Questions to ask yourself



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  • Mike Saloio is the CEO and cofounder of Huddle, a startup that brings together fractional swat teams of expert builders to help startups generate real momentum on their most important projects within a week.

    This is a candid conversation about leadership and how our egos, sense of identity, and personal practices shape our company cultures. In particular, I think you’ll find practical benefit from our discussion about decoupling the concepts of morality and integrity to have healthier team dynamics.

    * Mike Saloio - Twitter, LinkedIn

    * Huddle

    Related episodes:

    * Barry Brown: Work as a pathway of transformation

    People & orgs:

    * Steph Golik (cofounder)

    * TechStars

    * EXPA

    * Rick Rubin

    * Alfred Adler

    * Ray Dalio

    * Russell Simmons (+ meditation book)

    Books and media:

    * The Courage To Be Disliked

    * Article - Polarities

    * Polarity Management (book)

    * Success Through Stillness

    * Rick Rubin book

    * Huddle launch article

    * The Playbook

    Other resources:

    * Ikigai

    * “You must become somebody before you become nobody”

    * Ubuntu

    * Transcendental Meditation

    * Four minute mile effect - Bannister effect



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  • The SaaS Playbook will shave years off your learning curve if you want to build a SaaS. Rob Walling is a serial entrepreneur and the internet godfather of indie SaaS businesses who has built six companies and has been a long-standing voice in creative, independent paths into product building and entrepreneurship since 2010.

    Links & resources mentioned

    * Book: The SaaS Playbook

    * Back the Kickstarter

    * Startups for the Rest of Us podcast & MicroConf YouTube

    * TinySeed

    * MicroConf

    Related episodes:

    * Rob Walling (ep28): Build a great business and let that be enough

    * DJ DiDonna: Navigating sabbaticals and career breaks

    People & orgs:

    * TinySeed

    * MicroConf

    * Dr Shelly Walling

    * Justin Jackson - choosing a market

    Books:

    * The SaaS Playbook

    * The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together

    * Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup

    * The Zen Founder Guide to Founder Retreats

    Other resources:

    * MicroConf

    * IndieHackers

    * The 5PM idea validation framework

    * Survivorship bias

    * Stair step method of bootstrapping



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  • What do you do when one of your top three KPIs is stagnant, and the product isn't growing? A micro case study in debugging retention and unlocking growth.

    You can read the original article here: https://tinyurl.com/2hdmy2zp

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  • Petra Wille is a product leadership coach and the author of Strong Product People, my go-to book for the people development side of being a product leader. In this conversation, we dive deep into why and how a community of practice can level up your team and save training budget.

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    Links & resources mentioned:

    Petra Wille:

    • Website

    • Twitter @loomista

    • LinkedIn

    • Book: Strong Product People

    • Conference: Product at Heart

    Related episodes:

    • Amy Edmondson: Building teams where people feel safe

    People & orgs:

    • Robert Kegan

    • Tolingo (translation company)

    Books:

    • Strong Product People

    • An Everyone Culture

    • The Culture Map

    • Selling the Dream

    Other resources:

    • Product Communities of Practice: Everything You Need to Know

    • Dan Pink - Autonomy, mastery, purpose

    • The (product) cultural iceberg



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  • Bob Moesta is one of the pioneers of Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) theory, which has fundamentally changed the way we think about building products and discovering what progress people actually need and want from the products they hire.

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    Bob Moesta: The Rewired Group, LinkedIn, Twitter

    Bob’s books and podcast Learning to Build Demand-Side Sales 101 Jobs to be Done Handbook The Circuit Breaker podcast

    RELATED EPISODES:

    April Dunford: Find your power in the market through positioning

    PEOPLE & ORGS:

    W. Edwards Deming

    Clayton Christensen

    Genichi Taguchi

    Willie Hobbs Moore

    Tim Davis

    Claire Sullentrope

    April Dunford

    Ryan Singer

    Basecamp

    Intercom

    BOOKS:

    Learning to Build

    Competing Against Luck

    Grit

    Introduction to Quality Engineering

    Orthogonal Arrays and Linear Graphs

    Shape Up

    How Will You Measure Your Life?

    Never Split the Difference

    OTHER RESOURCES:

    Orthogonal arrays

    Magic squares

    L9 prototype



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  • Sahil Lavingia has had an epic journey as an entrepreneur: he dropped out of college to become employee #2 at Pinterest and then went on to found Gumroad, one of the largest platforms for creators to sell their work and earn a living online. After the company failed to meet its VC-driven growth timeline and almost died, Sahil had to lay everyone off and build it back up into the resilient, streamlined, and fully distributed company it is today.

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    Links & resources mentioned:

    • Send episode feedback on Twitter @askotzko , or via email

    • Sahil Lavingia: Gumroad, Twitter, personal site

    • Book: The Minimalist Entrepreneur

    • “Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company”: essay + talk

    • Sahil’s early stage investment fund

    Related episodes:

    • #42 ARM: A mental model for fulfilling work

    People & orgs:

    • Gumroad

    • USC

    • Patreon

    • BandCamp

    • Substack

    • Daniel Vassallo tweet about money he’s made Gumroad

    • Paul Graham: “You've found market price when buyers complain but still pay.”

    Books:

    • The Minimalist Entrepreneur

    • Essentialism

    • Only the Paranoid Survive

    Other resources:

    • How Gumroad is run: No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees

    • Video: Gumroad Q4 2022 board meeting - where pricing change was announced

    • “Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company”: essay + MicroConf talk

    • What is a transformer model (AI)?



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  • Five things I (re)learned from spending a week with SVPG + some of the best product coaches in the world.

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    Related episodes

    • #60 DJ DiDonna: Navigating sabbaticals and career breaks

    People & orgs

    • Marty Cagan & SVPG

    Books

    • The Thin Book of Trust

    Other resources mentioned

    • Vision example: SpaceX

    • Vision example: Microsoft productivity

    • Vision example: Apple’s Knowledge Navigator

    • Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

    • Original agile manifesto



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  • DJ DiDonna helps us approach taking REAL time off and evolving our identity along with our career.

    Whether you’re feeling like you need to take time off, or if you’re curious about what sabbaticals are and why they might be good for both you and your organization, have a listen. You’ll learn about how your interests and identity can evolve along with your career, but not be bound by your career.

    Links & resources mentioned

    • Send episode feedback on Twitter @askotzko , or via email

    • DJ DiDonna: LinkedIn

    • The Sabbatical Project

    Related episodes:

    • #59 Kenny Borg: Identity transformation and embodying fulfillment

    People & orgs:

    • The Sabbatical Project

    Books:

    • Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

    • Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes

    • Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

    • How Will You Measure Your Life?

    • The Lies of Locke Lamora

    Other resources:

    • TED talk: Stefan Sagmeister: The power of time off

    • DJ’s TEDx talk: Sabbaticals: Time [off] well spent

    • LinkedIn career break feature

    • Research: “The three meanings of meaning in life: Distinguishing coherence, purpose, and significance”

    • Exercise: 2022 Reflection + 2023 Goal Setting



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  • Kenny Borg helps us explore the ongoing evolution of our identity, deal with imposter syndrome, and embody fulfillment throughout the journey instead of putting it off to the end. He cofounded Ethr, a coaching collective that exists to help you develop a relationship with your own consciousness and actualize your wisdom. Before that, he spent more than a decade as a founder & CEO operating and advising direct to consumer brands.

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