Michael Lopp

MID-MAY. Need to finish a talk for LDX3 and finish a book. I can summon the Zone at will now. This Week in Rands As I attempt to write durable leadership lessons, I need to tell stories you can relate to, which means talking about humans I’ve worked

LATE APRIL. We had 3x normal rain here in NorCal. The green says thank you. This Week in Rands We’re in the end game for Book #4, which, weirdly, is already available on Amazon.  There is a mental state late in book writing where you get deeply tired of

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

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,

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

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’

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