Author: Brian Dys

  • Reading List: Week 4, February 2022

    No strategy is better than its execution. … You can go very, very far with world-class execution whereas you will go nowhere, no matter how brilliant your strategy is … so execution really needs to come first because strategy is not something you can navigate if you don’t know how to execute.Frank Slootman

  • Reading List: Week 3, February 2022

    Tastes change, cultural forces ebb and flow, and the industry needs to ride those waves to survive. It has been said that originality in the truest sense doesn’t exist—that in order to make, you need to take.Nicholas Lam

  • Reading List: Week 2, February 2022

    We conform because we believe that others’ interpretation of an ambiguous situation is more accurate than ours and will help us choose an appropriate course of action.Elliot Aronson, Timothy Wilson and Robin Akert

  • Reading List: Week 1, February 2022

    These days, designers largely observe industry best practices to build approachable products. Many of these practices are codified into design systems and easy to implement, making straightforward, well-designed — albeit simply designed — sites and apps ubiquitous.Carly Ayres

  • Lubay Bulay

    12 March 2022 update: I’m changing the title of this song from “Lubay” to “Lubay Bulay” so give context to the shifting and contrasting melodies. Happy Chinese new year! Padaluyin natin ang magandang suerte sa pamamagitan ng pag let go sa mga nakaraan — mapabagay man yan o pangyayari. Hindi man siya madali, kailangan nating subukan.…

  • Reading List: Week 4, January 2022

    It is almost easier to define what hybrid work is by looking at what it isn’t. Is your company fully-remote? Is it fully in-person? If your answer is no to both of these questions, then you are hybrid.Rajiv Ayyangar

  • Reading List: Week 3, January 2022

    If multiple teams were given the same goal to achieve then many of the principles of agility would organically begin to show up. Teams would have to self-organize ways of communicating between each other, knowledge management, status reporting, blockers, dependencies and everything in between.Jeff Gothelf

  • Reading List: Week 2, January 2022

    What happens to impression formation when we see and hear each other through video on a regular basis? Visual cues in video conferences, such as camera angle and a partner’s distance to the screen, may have large perceptual consequences on impression development.Géraldine Fauville, Anna C. M. Queiroz, Mufan Luo, Jeffrey Hancock, and Jeremy N. Bailenson

  • Menor

    Nawa’y nakapag-celebrate kayo kasama ng mga kapamilya, kamag-anak at mga kaibigan nang ligtas syempre. Marami tayong maipagpapasalamat. Sa simula ng taon na ito, isang maganda paalala na lagi tayong mag-menor. Bumagal mula sa tulin ng takbo natin. Pwede ring umatras at bumalik para magnilay-nilay. Take one step at a time, ika nga. Sa kabuuan, maranasan…

  • Reading List: Week 1, January 2022

    The desire to generate income and feel fulfilled from multiple projects will increase retention, increase workplace productivity, and help many projects and companies engage top talent that would otherwise be out of reach.Scott Belsky