Ever since I first read Samo Burja's distinction of Live Players Vs Dead Players in his blog, I've been seeing Live and Dead Players everywhere - in orgs, in startups, in my work and travels. Who is a Live Player? In Samo's words, a live player is a person or a tightly coordinated group of people that are able to do things they have no...

Writing publicly is a deliberate practice to become a better human being. When you write publicly, you clear the cobwebs off your mind. You examine your deepest biases. Your fears. Your irrational beliefs. Your pet peeves. You examine them for what they have helped you in, and you get a choice whether to enliven them or not. Through wr...