Michael Lopp

EARLY APRIL. Yes, it’s raining again. We needed it. This Week in Rands "Cognitive offload" is a phrase I keep hearing relative to AI. The idea is this. By asking the robots to do the work, you are offloading the important work of doing the work or

LATE MARCH. We just had Summer in March here on the West Coast. That sucked. These Weeks in Rands Any random tool, script, or workflow that I want to build or improve is ready for help thanks to Claude Code. It feels like the early days of the internet, where

LATE-FEBRUARY. Last week, you took action. That project, concern, or issue, you took action on. Did you? DO THIS. RIGHT NOW. This is week six of this experiment, and this step — if you done the rest — is the most important. Give yourself an honest grade on the process to date.

MID-TO-LATE-FEBRUARY. Last week, you took the concern, worry, or obstruction and you shared it with an important someone else. How’d that go? What did you expect to learn? What did you unexpectedly learn? DO THIS. RIGHT NOW. We’ve been noodling this situation for a bit, and it’s

MID-FEBRUARY. Last week, you took the first step toward solving a significant concern, worry, or obstruction in your mind about yourself or your team. The goal was to choose a direction, not a solution. How'd it go? You realize that I'm making these tasks so simple

Good morning, it's February 2nd. EARLY FEBRUARY. In your toolkit, you now have two short documents. A quick assessment of the team and a quick assessment of yourself. Go re-read those if you did them, and if you didn’t, here are the instructions for both. It’ll

Good morning, it’s January 26th. LATE JANUARY. The calm of the holidays is becoming a distant memory. Last week, we did a super-fast assessment of your team. Not a performance review, nothing formal, just a temperature check. The practice I’m encouraging is a cache refresh. I want you

Good morning, it’s January 19th. JANUARY. Most performance reviews have a strong recency bias. You remember the successes and failures from the last three months and use that as the foundation for the report card. This is unfair. Your team members have likely forgotten or rebranded their failures, but,