Business

I run a small federal contracting business, and when a contract modification required me to start reporting sales order-by-order instead of as a monthly summary, the concept was overwhelming. Instead, I opened an LLM, uploaded my invoices, described my problem, and built a fully automated Python script in a single afternoon that reads my invoices, maps them to the correct government fields, and spits out an upload-ready compliance report. What used to be a manual headache that could’ve taken hours is now a 30-second task, and I didn’t write a single line of code. Amazing! – Dad

It’s not a principal unless it costs you money. – Bill Bernbach

I am a cook and I know there is no America without immigrants. There is no food at our table without immigrants. There is no farm without immigrants. There are no kitchens without immigrants. – Chef José Andrés

When you choose fealty  over competence you get what you pay for. – Dad

In order to have complete accountability you must define the following objectives:

• Clear Expectations
• Clear Capability
• Clear Measurement for Success
• Clear Feedback/Feedforward (spend more time here)
• Clear Consequences for sucess or failure

– Peter Bregman

How to initiate hard conversations:

1) Schedule the conversation on your calendar

2) Lead with the punchline

– Peter Bregman