Ben Parkison

Focus on small problems. “There is only one way to eat an elephant: a bite at a time.”

The ability to easily shift into more creative mindsets. At home, if I'm working through a tricky problem and need to change things up I can much more easily go for a walk, sit in the back yard, or even kick a soccer ball around or pluck out a tune on the piano. All things that help my brain solve problems better, and all things that were much harder to do in the office. WFH has given me a huge...

Honestly here's where passion and alignment have mattered for me: When a startup and team will live or die on execution. If you have a group of people and you're headed into the trenches to try to make some idea a reality AND the path to that reality isn't obvious - then, passionate leaders who can inspire that same passion in their teams in critical. If the path is set (you have the anchor...