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, a new all-in-one doc, and previously spent a generation at Google (mostly on YouTube), and Microsoft (mostly on Office and Windows). I grew up in Virginia, went to MIT for college, where I met my wife Anjuli. We have two wonderful daughters (14 and 17). Fun fact: I coach my daughters’
. I was drawn to this topic after a chat with Bing Gordon, a friend and mentor, and have now interviewed over 1,000 leaders and companies about their rituals. I’m working on publishing this as a book in 2024. To read and contribute to early drafts, sign up
Latest Highlights: Presenting at Lenny & Friends Summit
At the end of October, I gave a talk at Lenny Rachitsky’s Lenny & Friends Summit about how we can 10x decisions with intentionally-designed rituals. I’ve been a huge fan of Lenny and his community for years, and it was amazing seeing such a dense group of talented product thinkers in one space.
The video came out great, and I’m excited to share it with everyone...
And if you want to dive in further, my Coda doc includes the
Planning often takes more time and effort than the actual execution...no one wants that. And I’ve heard so many product leaders say that “planning is broken.” So as we sat down to decide the topic of our Config talk this year, Figma’s CPO, Yuhki Yamashita, and I decided to study how world-class teams approach planning.
We shared our insights—as well as teams’ unique rituals—that will hopefully help “unbreak” planning at your company. And if you’re intrigued (and/or confused?) about why planning is WOOOOOOOOOW... here’s a hint: count the number of O’s. :)
Watch the video, read the script, and take a peek behind the scenes at how we used Figma Slides to put everything together.