Archive - The BW Experience

A Guide To Startup Life

Increasingly people want to join a startup instead of working at a big corporation. I've done both and several people have reached out to me asking…

Aug 22, 2021 •

July 2021

Culture Is The Most Important Product

The Monkey Story "Scientists started with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, they hung a banana on a string with a set of stairs placed…

Jul 20, 2021 •

June 2021

3 Frameworks for Scaling Startup Operations On The Way to Unicorn Status

Building any business is hard. Scaling is a uniquely difficult stage of building a business. But building and scaling a unicorn is 10x harder. Things…

Jun 27, 2021 •

May 2021

3 Simple Frameworks for Better Decision-Making

Management is Decision-Making Moving from individual contributor to manager or executive changes your job — less doing and more decision-making. To…

May 30, 2021 •

April 2021

Podcast Interview: Defining My Human O.S.

I believe that people, like software, have an operating system that guides them — a Human O.S. of sorts. Several years ago "personal user manuals…

Apr 25, 2021 •

March 2021

How To Do Simple, Effective, & Great 1-on-1s

Why Regular 1-on-1s Matter Let's be honest. We all know regular time between a manager and direct report is important. It's just not often prioritized…

Mar 28, 2021 •

February 2021

Why Crypto Matters: Evolution of the Global Financial Ecosystem

Wow, crypto has been blowing up in 2021! Bitcoin and Ethereum recently hit several all-time highs with announcements that Tesla bought $1.5B worth and…

Feb 28, 2021 •

November 2020

Podcast Interview: What Makes A High Performance Culture

In this interview I sit down with Maren Kate Donovan on Tech+Talent to discuss a range of topics including: How I came to start a luxury hair salon Key…

Nov 15, 2020 •

October 2020

Manage the Machine

As a leader or manager one question comes up again and again. How do you design an organization for high performance? The core problem is that you need…

Oct 18, 2020 •

August 2020

How To Synthesize Like A Bridgewater Executive

In Ray Dalio's Principles he talks about the importance of being able to synthesize in order to make good decisions. And in order to synthesize well…

Aug 24, 2020 •

July 2020

Video Interview: How A Hair Salon Uses Ray Dalio’s Principles to Navigate COVID-19

In addition to my "day job" career that has included management consulting firm Deloitte👨‍💼, hedge fund Bridgewater Associates 💰, and real estate…

Jul 14, 2020 •

May 2020

A Detailed Guide To My Epic Morning Routine

Why a morning routine is important Generally speaking people are expectation machines and with COVID-19 upending our normal way of life there’s more…

May 25, 2020 •

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