by John Macdonald | Apr 6, 2025 | The250
Ship it fast. Break it fast. Fix it fast. In many situations, that’s my mantra. But speed amplifies trajectory. If your trajectory is wrong, getting there faster may not help. Automating tasks that don’t need doing doesn’t help. Optimizing a...
by John Macdonald | Apr 5, 2025 | The250
Life is our journey between inflection points. You’re moseying along on a path. Bam! An inflection point happens, and that starts you on a new path. You planned some of these inflections, foreseen some others, and were blindsided by several. But the journey...
by John Macdonald | Apr 4, 2025 | The250
Complexity causes chaos. And chaos stalls progress. Yet, complexity is always conserved. You can’t eliminate the complexity, but can you tame it? Can you bring some order to the chaos? As a leader, your job is to figure that out. Can you eliminate some...
by John Macdonald | Apr 3, 2025 | The250
“…a lot of work is really boring and not particularly meaningful. If we acknowledge that, we can turn our attention to improving the human experience of work.”- Ethan Mollick, Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI This is one of the...
by John Macdonald | Apr 2, 2025 | The250
My co-founding team and I have been working together for almost 10 years. We’re high-functioning, very good at what we do, individually excellent, and our whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We have solved some very hard engineering problems. ...
