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Finn Schubert

When was the last time you explained something to someone?

When was the last time you explained something to someone? Did you do so willingly? With the excitement of mutual discovery? Did you do so grudgingly, perhaps because they’d never understand anyway? Or maybe because you couldn’t believe they hadn’t just googled it? (Remember that website, Let

Sequencing

I’m a huge fan of Michelle Warner’s Sequence Over Strategy podcast. Her newsletter is great, too. She chooses stories from her own life to illustrate her main points about business design. Doing things in the right order is more important than doing them perfectly. She also emphasizes understanding

Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg

"There are innumerable ways to write badly. The usual way is making sentences that don’t say what you think they do."

Influence Is Your Superpower by Zoe Chance

"In almost any negotiated agreement the key ingredients will be similar: dreams and data."

Hospicing Modernity by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira

I’m not going to finish this one right now, although I think it’s an important book. I’ve made it about a third of the way through. I tend to agree with this review in Resilience. Specifically: With all the admonitions, I was prepared to be deeply affected

Welcome to Workflows Before Rainbows

Today I watched the Steve Jobs Apple iPhone launch video after hearing Nancy Duarte’s TED talk explaining that all great presentations have the same structure: they move back and forth between the current state and the possible future, which helps the listener to make the shift to the future

The caterpillar forgets how to walk

I’ve made things too complicated again. It’s almost like, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, except for online presence. I got this secret blog, but then I wanted a secret digital garden, and then I wanted to redo my website, and then I wanted to restart my