Companies have long viewed remote work as the enemy of innovation. Traditionalists have said remote work can’t replicate the creative synergy that takes place in person....

Building software for enterprise customers is never easy.  Enterprises have complex needs, many different stakeholders, and they sometimes bring up requests that stem from unique settings,...

Though she stood at only 4’10”, Madeleine Albright was always the most commanding presence in the room (I know from experience). As an immigrant with political...

If you ask a startup founder how they’re doing, chances are, they’ll say, “Great!” Founder are incentivized to project an image of confidence and security. Succeeding...

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are so much more than buzzy digital art. Though you could be forgiven for thinking that’s all they are. After some spotty activity...

On their own, our brains can only handle so much. The cumulative burden of stress that the human brain manages—from work, life, and everything in between—is...

In a time of sustained medical emergency, the medtech industry did…pretty well. Revenue for 20 of the world’s largest medtech companies totaled $208.8 billion in 2020,...

I used to go braindead at 4:00 p.m. I couldn’t understand what it was about that afternoon hour, but every time it rolled around, I’d get...

The traditional mentor-mentee relationship model has a problem: incentives.  Or, more precisely, a lack thereof. People tend to become mentors out of a desire to “give...

The world’s billionaires are pouring money into age-reversal investments.  Last September, it came out that Jeff Bezos had invested in Altos Labs, a company pursuing biological...

At the end of 2019, Lawtrades’s bank balance was down to $20k. People were getting value from our platform, but we were struggling to convert that...

The world is infinitely complex.  It only grows more complex as media outlets multiply and vie for our attention. Each outlet wants you to believe their...

What exactly is a friendship? It’s not quite a romance — based on continuous intimacy, romantic love, with countless novels and movies created to explore it. ...

Traditionally, “media” has referred to any form of content — articles, photos, videos — that human beings create for other human beings. But over the years, and now more...

Too many leaders set values unilaterally — from the top down. Top-down values aren’t really values. They’re commands. Especially in today’s talent market, where people crave a...

Three years ago, my company (Lawtrades) almost went bankrupt. We’d failed to raise a Series A or generate any interest among VCs.  Last month, we closed...

Not even 20 years ago, “collecting data” was something few companies did. Nowadays, people talk about everything they will do with big data. But back then,...

Here’s a hard truth for entrepreneurs: The people who tell you to “Go all in” have no idea what it means to go all in. Or,...

Month by month, as the Great Resignation continues, the talent shortage deepens.  As the Wall Street Journal reports, more than half of all business owners have...

Building a business is hard. It’s a never-ending challenge of balancing strategy, execution, people skills, product development, customer service, and opportunity cost. When you get all...