The Ready’s Medium Publication

I periodically publish articles on The Ready’s Medium publication. They run the gamut from nitty-gritty guides about how to run better meetings, to extremely nerdy and theoretical takes on how entropy is a useful metaphor for thinking about organizations, to everything in between.

Designing the intentional organization

*November 2018*

1*81ePyABbAwB2bkneq_CLCA.jpeg — 10 principles of emergent organizations (and how we live them at The Ready)

*December 2016*

1*xdB_dKKmA4yDrjksSOJCOA.jpeg — Three things great leaders inside contemporary organizations do

*July 2016*

1*lIMCugH7Q-n_TTmIbu8Brg.jpeg — Organizational design without empathy won’t work

*April 2016*

1*VHK549wpyszmV3RChwOmog.jpeg — Good organizational design is destructive

*February 2016*

The secret weapon your organization isn’t using

*January 2016*

Wanting better leadership doesn’t mean needing better leaders

*November 2015*

Creating an organizational design firm for the 21st century

*August 2015*

1*IuJhpdbcZ4DEkfsOzAScew.jpeg — How to host the best meeting of the week

*August 2018*

1*SsdljFPsAUa65_-8y4uBMg.jpeg — How to make sure your organization is constantly getting better (part 1)

*August 2016*

Why effective organizations and people know the inverted pyramid is fractal

*May 2016*

1*l9Tj0ibHNUxn1zVFtGM_Zg.jpeg — You are not a router. You are human

*March 2016*

1*lS5NaNcjD6bHQFSnfqMEhg.jpeg — The simple skill separating those who learn from those who don’t

*February 2016*

1*d84hdUY-4OTI9jz_iOyq_A.jpeg — Your team plays like it practices (for better or worse)

*January 2016*

1*rCCok66TLKq4a9TeX9huiA-2.jpeg — The two sides of the organizational design coin

*November 2015*

1*ZOahpiqszVYrtGL--NP-ng.jpeg — Noise isn’t the enemy: Finding the signal in your organization

*February 2017*

1*BQPGBVcBYtynm-kiYHpCrw.jpeg — How to make sure your organization is constantly getting better (part 2)

*October 2016*

The fundamental difference between thriving and dying organizations

*May 2016*

1*rCCok66TLKq4a9TeX9huiA.jpeg — The future of getting better at work

*March 2016*

1*WeEGLWjz545WnBUFnRaXpQ.jpeg — Doing good work is hard to do, so don’t sabotage yourself

*January 2016*

1*TAksbXhCiYnxF_-8Lvdfgg.jpeg — People ruin everything (especially your org change effort)

*December 2015*

1*lbXS92hNjaWDlHOAxIjNfg.jpeg — Always be closing (your projects)

*October 2015*

Personal Writing

And sometimes I write about things unrelated to my work at The Ready. For awhile I tried to write something every day and a couple years ago I wrote a recap of every single Red Wing game (until they got so bad that forcing myself to watch them and write about them seemed too self-flagellating). I’ve picked a few of my favorite (and most recent) articles below but you can check out my full archive on Medium.

1*xef-uxJVn2da1NKNHVJ7Sg.jpeg — My one year anniversary of being a PhD drop out

*July 2017*

Let me help you not suck at email

*June 2017*

1*canNmccfYMn4SF8n7oKHUQ%402x.jpg — State of the apps: 2019

*December 2018*

1*2L3FZZj_WYzlBsnSGYhujg.jpeg — State of the apps and tools: 2018

*January 2018*

1*m3vlxneAo50hBQYOZbT_ug.jpeg — Is technology destroying my intuition?

*December 2017*

1*gkGPhDZYqJSx_5NkGmKWhw.jpeg — Weekly review and self-management of attention

*June 2017*

1*0tX0KPgoCOPlLtRBgI8efQ.jpeg — Seeking quiet in a noisy world: A personal experiment

*September 2016*

1*hhFaSGvL2WITEvEnauGsiQ.gif — Today is my last day as a PhD student

*July 2016*

Use software that sparks joy

*July 2018*

1*79lsib9FB8pbz0t0XJdFlA.jpeg — **Focusing on the how in the quest for great work**

*April 2018*

1*2IP9hJO9O01FooRPadt9Mw@2x.jpeg — #mundanelife: An exercise in boring

June 2017

In which I have to critique one of my intellectual heroes

*June 2017*

1*zgKx-B4jWv41Gp6afycW-Q@2x.jpeg — A brief farewell to Joe Louis Arena

*April 2017*