Nov 21
#029: Personal Best — Email over the break | From Receptionist to UFC Champion | Slow Podcast Workouts
Nov 14
MC#028: Escaping Short Term Thinking — Plus: Career Outcomes + Pistol Whip (VR)
Nov 07
MC#027: Counting — HODLING | The Next Trump | A Better Way to Read
Oct 31
MC#026: It's a Fine Line — The subtle difference between totally brilliant and totally f*cked
Oct 24
MC#025: Reorgs — Why reorg's aren't all bad, launching a multi-year charitable effort
Oct 17
MC#024: A Taxonomy of Visual Diagrams — Venn's Method of Diagrams, Lessons from Fresh Prince, Uncanny Valley Presenters
Oct 10
What I Learned from My First (Blunder-Filled) Marathon — This piece was originally published in 2014 on the health and wellness site Greatist but has been lost after the site was acquired in 2019. Republishing it here because it’s a great lesson in humility and resilience. Entrepreneur and former collegiate gymnastics champion Jason Shen had a less-than-awesome experience
Oct 10
MC#023: Effort Vs Impact — TIRED: Deep dives, WIRED: Quick hits
Oct 03
MC#022: The Docs Edition — 5 Takes on Notion, Roam, and document/knowledge
Sep 26
MC#21: The Three Skills of Resilience — Why we should stop thinking of resilience as an innate quality
Sep 19
MC#020: The Sweat Edition — 6 takes on Peloton, Mirror, Aaptiv, and the fitness tech space
Sep 12
MC#019: The Mindfulness Edition — 5 takes on Calm app, Headspace, neurofeedback and meditation
Sep 05
MC#018: ...and this is my MasterClass — 6 takes on the celebrity feel-good learning but fun subscription you think costs too much
Aug 29
MC#017: Tradeoffs — 1. 🎲 Meditation and Uncertainty + 2. 🐇 When to be Fast and Good +3. 🕺🏻 How the Founder of TikTok Is Handling Himself
Aug 24
The Difference Between a Prototype and a Demo — A lot has been made about Apple’s hardware product prowess – the click wheel of the iPod, the slimness of the Macbook Air, but just as notable are Apple’s standout software like Safari, Keynote, iOS and many more. In Creative Selection [https://amzn.to/3hxpth3], long-time Apple software engineer
Aug 22
MC#016: Fidelity vs. Functionality — 💼 Midgame → Facebook + 👨🏻‍💻 What Makes for a Great Demo + ✍️ A Venn Diagram of Writing Success Factors
Aug 18
Midgame’s Next Chapter — We’re headed to Facebook! As builders and entrepreneurs, we’ve always been interested in using data and technology to fulfill human needs: in commerce, recruiting, and gaming. Before we founded Midgame, Wayne and Jason first started working together at Etsy, where we built systems and tools that powered millions
Aug 15
MC#015: Brains Are Weird — 🎼 Patterns of Creatives + 👯‍♂️ Sibling Author Rivalry + 💉 Placebos Are Wild
Aug 08
MC#014: Our Spreadsheet Overlords — ⏱ 1. How 60 minutes could change your life + 2. 🧮 Spreadsheets Rule the World + 3. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Feeling Kinship in the Era of Technocapitalism
Aug 01
MC#013: Breaking Rules, Breaking Stereotypes — ♨️ Complexity and Product Lines 🎭 How Stereotype Shape Our Performance 🚫 Who Gets to Break the Rules?