Improv at Work: Brainstorming
There’s a lot we can learn from improv to help us in other areas of life, such as at work. Here’s an improv game to practice donning specific attitudes, to see the effect they have on a brainstorming scene.
Notes from a Dilettante
Reflections on spending a few months running a pop-up pizza shop, and how it relates to the kind of work I’ve done for most of my career.
How can I support you?
Asking a teammate “How can I support you,” is a deceptively simple but powerful tool that recognizes the responsibility everyone shares for the success of a project (or an improv scene).
Good design wards off ambiguity
Many tenets of good design can be boiled down to a simple rule: anticipate where your users might get confused, and then leave little signals about the right path, so your users feel taken care of.
A Parable of Pizzas and Promotions
A pizza-oriented thought experiment about what happens when the goals of personal growth, career progression and project / product / company success aren’t fully aligned.
Don’t Act Like a Question Monster
Don’t act like a Question Monster! Play your part in bringing your team from a place of ambiguity to a place of clarity by taking responsibility for answering questions and documenting your assumptions.