I've also stolen countless templates, color palettes, and other techniques from artists, teachers, books, and music I love. Mining from your love is the best way to shape your taste, but the best thing in life is to steal are concepts.

If each of us would nose-dive on investing whole-heartily into three strangers (1:3), we’d get much more meaningful work done. With a narrow focus, we accomplish more in the long term. A seemingly small effort, such as 1:3 repeated, can compound at an alarming rate.

Open Source companies commit time and funds to share their discoveries, whether it’s their fabrication contacts, material suppliers, processes, or any other businessy stuff. We want to build more bridges, not bigger moats.

Just like ® denotes brand authenticity to the consumer, Ⓢ communicates your company’s commitment to freely sharing its resources. This is what leveraging profit indeed looks like.

I often wonder why we don't reserve more margin in our lives. We find ourselves running on empty and dangerously close to seizing.

Waste can take on many forms inside and outside the factory. The filter is whether or not our activity adds value?

It can be easy to convince ourselves the tasks that fill up our days are valuable. Why else would we do them, right?

Ohno he di’int.

Credited as the father of the Toyota Production System, Taiichi Ohno identified seven forms of muda (無駄, meaning “futility; uselessness; wastefulness).

At least two of the largest Lego clone manufacturers have been challenged in court by The Lego Group. The lawsuits have been mostly unsuccessful…

There are plenty of talented, creative workers out there, but linchpins are unique because they always ship.

When a linchpin sets a deadline for a project, they deliver on time, every time. No matter what.

Godin says, “We don’t have a talent shortage, we have a shipping shortage.”

Every Article should contain all five of the following sections: Title, Subtitle, Content, Context, Thoughts.

The sections appear in this order, but their rank shows up differently. Their font-size and font-weight reveal where your time may be best invested.