Getting out of my own way

• Manage your own execution like you would manage a subordinate.  Your body works for your mind and needs to manage the body to do what the mind wants.  Explore more why this is useful.  This gets rid of the need to feel your way into something.  Sometimes I don't feel like doing something but I work for my rational side not my feeling side.  Too often my feeling side takes precedence and that does not work out for me in terms of how I am spending my time.

Lessons from Braintree...hard to disagree

Aside from the strategic considerations specific to the payments industry, I wanted principles to build upon that were colored by my life experience. I settled on three: 1) we’d be the preferred payments platform by engineers; 2) team members would say that Braintree was the best company they’d ever worked for; and 3) our customers would write us love letters. I made these three objectives the heart and soul of the company and we built everything else on top of them.