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The One About The Important Thing
One hundred episodes. For this occasion, years in the coming, Lyle and I talk about the thing itself — the nuts and bolts of the podcast, including how the robots...
The One About the Pro Leisure Circuit (Again)
In our 99th episode, Rands is back on the Pro Leisure Circuit — infinite time, a suspicious amount of Arc Raiders, and no wind in the sails — and we...
The Mario Meeting
Review season. You start your career thinking the review is the most important milestone of the year, but as an individual, you only see part of the picture. Everyone cares...
The One About The Joy of Bots
In our 98th episode, we list the things we’ve been building with our robots and figure out who we’re really yelling at when it all goes wrong. Mentioned, referenced, or...
What Song is on Repeat in Your Head?
I was sitting at dinner with dear friends, and we made a list of questions we love to ask.
So You Want to Fix Your All Hands
I will now explain why at least 50% of your team finds your current All Hands to be a waste of their time. They believe: Now, I will describe how...
Here’s The Rub: We Don’t Believe You
Welcome, new leader. We’re glad that you are here. Your arrival fills a critical vacancy in our team, and we can’t wait to see what you can do at this...
The Ask
Coffee in hand, I sit down in the Cave. Any Tuesday during the work week, a sip, and I parse the calendar. 1:1 — he’s fine. Status meeting — listen....
Barely Treading Water
Carolyn, my chief of staff, sat on the couch as I ran into my office. The Palo Alto building wasn’t built for tech; it’d been adapted to support the use...
The USB Situation
I write this from the latest MacBook Pro. I’ve been running this as my primary machine for almost a month. When I’m not grinding out the latest soon-to-be-released I-swear-I-am-on-schedule book...
Sometimes Your Job is to Get in the Way
The Head of Product, Customer Service, and the CTO of Slack were sitting in the front row at an important conference. This was peak Slack; we were all the buzz,...
The Slide
They don’t want to hear it. They don’t. It is legit good feedback. It is substantive, and it is 100% true, but they do not want to hear it. How...
The MacBook Neo Guide
You can read all the reviews you want about new hardware, but if it’s hardware you touch, there is one test that can only be performed in person, and it’s...
Short Attention Span Theater
Back in 2013, Alex King and I redesigned the Rands in Repose. Thirteen years — still happy with the design. It’s readable, clean, and prominently features typography I love. What...
Test
Career History By the Numbers Company Period Months Stage Borland (post-grad) Jan 1992 – Sep 1993 16 Stable Netscape Jan 1994 – May 1998 53 Growth That Start-up You've Never...
Better, Faster, and (Even) More
I’ve never built more interesting, random, and useless scripts, tools, and services than I have in the last six months. The cost to go from “Random Thought” to “Working Something”...
The One About In Real Life
In our 97th episode, we talk about how much more we learn in person and why the last 10% of anything is the most important part. Things we mentioned: Rands...
The One About ARC Raiders
In our 96th episode, Rands goes deep (perhaps too deep) on ARC Raiders, an extraction shooter where trust is the real currency. Mentioned, referenced, or obsessed over: ARC Raiders The...
Hit and Run
As you drive by a cyclist, you have one of three opinions: As a person who drives, I’ve experienced #1 and #2 quite a bit. My perspective has shifted as...
The Complicators, The Drama Aggregators, and The Avoiders
It’s hard to tell what drives each human. This is why my usual last interview question is a very blunt, “What do you want to be when you grow up?”...