I made a transition from an early Polywork adopter to an early team member today! 🚀 🎉

As Head of Machine Learning, I look forward to making Polywork more delightful for all 7 billion people on the planet in living their lives to the fullest. 💓

New post: Discipline is Overrated

Any aspect of your work or life requiring "discipline" is usually a sign of a tooling gap or an automation gap. Many of these gaps are product/startup opportunities waiting to be taken.

Most work is a combination of creativity and discipline. The goal of automation should be to move people from the zone of discipline to the zone of creativity. The lazier we get to be, the more creativity flourishes. Here's to more goofing off and more creativity!

The future of identity and the future of work will see a great convergence in the coming years. Today I had a chance to chat with +Polywork founder @Peter Johnston to learn what their team is doing to accelerate that future.

Here's a short post where I share one of my lessons: Teach Don't Document.

If you are remotely involved in the Developer Tools or Developer Productivity business, then aim to teach and not just document. Don’t just throw your code on a Github repo with a README and docstrings. The terse documentation is for your 1% expert audience. For the rest – Inspire, Empower, Entertain!

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