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Inside Google (June 6, 2007) A look inside Google from a former and now current Microsoft employee.

Google on the desktop (July 7, 2004) Google picks up Picasa, giving them an important foothold on people's PCs.

IE6 CSS bug (April 4, 2003) Working around yet another Internet Explorer CSS bug and other frustrations.

Microsoft blogs (April 4, 2003) Many Microsoft employees have their own blogs. In addition to some great insight into the company, this provides a lesson to your own company.

Opinion tracking (April 4, 2003) If you want to know what people think about your products, don't ask them to tell you. Listen to what they tell others.

Web bug education (November 11, 2002) The anti-Web bug initiative will be ignored by unscrupulous marketers, but it will also serve to educate everyone else.

Apple theft (May 5, 2002) Sometimes companies other than Microsoft steal instead of innovate. Apple's been taking ideas from their developer community for years.

Maniacal Focus (January 1, 2002) If your company has a competitive weakness, you should make it your number one priority to overcome that weakness. Even better is to turn it around and make it a strength.

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Your OKR Cascade is Breaking Your Strategy
Aug 1: Most companies cascade OKRs down their org chart thinking it creates alignment. Instead, it fragments strategy and marginalizes supporting teams. Here's what works better than the waterfall approach.
Your Prioritization Problem Is a Strategy Problem
Jul 23: Most teams struggle with prioritization because they're trying to optimize for everything at once. The real problem isn't having too many options—it's not having a clear strategy to choose between them. Without strategy, every decision feels equally important. With strategy, most decisions become obvious.
Behind schedule
Jul 21: Your team is 6 weeks late and still missing features. The solution isn't working harder—it's accepting that your deadlines were fake all along. Ship what you have. Cut ruthlessly. Stop letting "one more day" turn into one more month.
VC’s Future Lies In Building Winners
Jun 21: AI and megafunds are about to kill the traditional venture model, forcing smaller VCs to stop hunting for hidden gems and start rolling up their sleeves to fix broken companies instead.
Should individual people have OKRs?
May 14: A good OKR describes and measures an outcome, but it can be challenging to create an outcome-focused OKR for an individual.
10 OKR traps and how to avoid them
May 8: I’ve helped lots of teams implement OKRs or fix a broken OKR process. Here are the 10 most common problems I see, and what to do instead.
AI is Smart, But Wisdom Requires Judgement
May 3: AI can process data at lightning speed, but wisdom comes from human judgment—picking the best imperfect option when facts alone don’t point the way.
Decoding Product Leadership Titles
Mar 18: Not all product leadership titles mean what they sound like. ‘Head of Product’ can mean anything from a senior PM to a true VP. Here’s how to tell the difference.

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