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Michael Lopp

Seven Daily Decisions

The next book is for senior leaders, and I spend a lot of time being very directive as opposed to my usual approach of "describe the situation and let them decide what they feel is best." Throughout the book, I'm littering these lists of seven. Why

Here. There is Meaning.

My aptitude for a pithy saying is 100% due to Twitter. It was a required skill to jam as much meaning into as few characters as possible. The practice, unfortunately, was a precursor to our widespread, crippling collective short attention spans; it also taught me how to get to the

Promotions, The Hard Part

After writing a lot about promotions for the last two weeks, I’m certain there is a valuable book to be written on the topic. The work around promotions encapsulates many skills you need to develop as both an individual and a leader, but… someone else needs to write that

On Promotions

I’m dialing up the regularity of posts to the blog because, well, there are a couple of books to write. This means you’ll be hearing from me every Tuesday. It’s Tuesday. You are supposed to be reading a piece called The Wanderer, which I think you’ll

Airplanes and Compliments

There are two new posts over at Rands, and you should probably check them out because I’m not going to write about them here. I am going to write about writing. Here, I’ll make it super easy. Alrighty. At this moment in time, I am working on two

Summarization is Sugar

The robot fever seems to be passing as I wrote a piece that at first glance has nothing to do with robots… except it sort'f does. As I was letting the final piece stew, I dropped a venty footnote that talks about a certain demographic that worries me

Dance. Robots.

Saying I've been getting the robots to dance for me is an understatement. My second display is dominated by terminal windows with the robots busily doing stuff. What stuff? The most reliable use cases are: research buddy and tool builder. I've recently started paying more attention

No One Reads Email Anymore

Which isn't true. In fact, email is doing quite well. The robots tell me that there are 4.6 billion users in 2025 and that there will be 4.8 billion in 2027. Your average email user receives 80 emails per day, with 50% of those being spam.