Michael Lopp

No one cared if I did nothing.

When I ask questions, do they have good answers?

Stubbornly curious

Over at the Rands Leadership Slack, there’s a #ask-rands-anything channel and sometimes I just crush it in terms of answers. A member asked me about why I remain technical as a senior leader: The mistake I made was thinking part of the job of growing as a manager/leader

Happy New Year, Substack friends. It rained hard here last night. My New Year’s pieces tend to perform better than the rest of the year's work, probably because we have a fresh start perspective. Whatever I have to write tends to hit harder. I’ve been tinkering

Hi Substack. Hope you are staying cool. I’ve posted a couple of significant pieces in the last week. The Contagion riffs on communication ideas I started to write about in How to Build a Rurmor. We, as a species, have wasted so much of our lives with crap information…

I’m currently in one of those strange situations where I am writing a ton, and the timing is curious. I am furiously working on finishing the second edition of the second book and writing a talk for a conference in Switzerland where I’ve chosen (with zero pressure) to

Thanks, universe!

This first article is about the version of the Police — The Worry Police. This article sat on the top of the pile for longer than expected because I wrote the first half first and thought I was done. That’s right, just worrying about the Worry Police. Pulled no punches.