Craig Russell

November 27, 2021

Ideas Are Clay

There are few things as powerful as an idea. Some come fully baked and ready for action, while others begin their existence as only an amorphous notion of what could be. It takes time and effort to refine these ideas, to give them form and let them take shape. Image alt: clay pottery being made Consider these two scenarios. Someone han...
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September 5, 2021

Arrogance vs Confident Humility

Arrogance is having an overinflated sense of self; confident humility is having an accurate sense of your self now and where you can go next. Faced with a problem, an arrogant person and a confident person might both answer the same way: "I can do that". From the outside looking in, arrogance and confidence can be hard to differentiate...
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July 25, 2021

Intermittently Consistent vs Consistently Intermittent

This title is too clever by half but stick with me and it'll make sense in the end. I've taken control over my general health in recent years in a way that eluded me most of my life. I want to share my thinking around what has worked for me now and why I could never make it work before in the hope you find some inspiration or interest ...
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July 14, 2021

Video Calls and Filling the Void

The year is something like 2021 and by now 98.3% of the world has experienced the joys of video calling for work. I'm not sure of the specifics of either of those details but they feel right enough to call them facts. You enter call number 6 clutching coffee number 7 wondering when you last ate. One by one the virtual room fills with f...
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March 27, 2021

Consensus-driven decision making doesn't scale

As teams get bigger, finding unanimous consensus gets harder. Exponentially harder. What worked for a team of two people, where finding full consensus in decision making comes easy, won't work as the team becomes bigger. Each new person brings in another opportunity for an opposing viewpoint, and a new opportunity to fail in finding a ...
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