In the last three years, I’ve gone through five layoffs. The first decade of my career was during the golden years of tech growth—when every new idea felt like it had momentum behind it. But over the past few years, as the effects of the pandemic faded, inflation rose, and overhiring caught up with the … Read more
I spent the last two years driving a large, multi-year moonshot project at LinkedIn—called 360Brew [paper, talk]. It aimed to revolutionize ranking and recommendations across the company and give LinkedIn an edge. (In a separate post, I’ll write about the challenges of running a moonshot initiative.) As the initiative grew from exploration to a company-wide … Read more
In my journey as leader and builder, one of the most valuable insights I’ve encountered is the incredible power of being a “sponge”—absorbing wisdom, experiences, and yes, even feedback. Adam Grant, in his book Hidden Potential, beautifully describes this concept through the metaphor of a sea sponge. A sponge actively draws water in, filters out … Read more