Michael 🤖🍀

obsessed with soft skills | make your own luck

[Michael 🤖🍀 @EMColumbus]

The drone noise in the sliding events is really taking away from the viewing experience

[Michael 🤖🍀 @EMColumbus]

the dopamine draw down is real.

[Michael 🤖🍀 @EMColumbus]

There are people who systematically remove decisions from other people's lives. (get the result / innovators / risk takers / leaders / etc)

And there are people who live their lives never making any decisions. (following the process / managing / etc)

[Michael 🤖🍀 @EMColumbus]

idea -> prototype is easy.

Going from prototype -> global release separates the men from the boys.

[Michael 🤖🍀 @EMColumbus]

Leadership is stepping off the known path.

Management is inertia.

[Michael 🤖🍀 @EMColumbus]

Others play a role in my success and my success failure.

But it’s more useful to me to share credit for wins and take solo blame for losses

[Michael 🤖🍀 @EMColumbus]

I never do body weight exercise because my brain tells me it’s too easy, but then I do it and it always kicks my ass

[Michael 🤖🍀 @EMColumbus]

“Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency'.” - Kurt Vonnegut

[Michael 🤖🍀 @EMColumbus]

Coming up with the idea and prototyping are the easy part.

[Michael 🤖🍀 @EMColumbus]

You own your calendar & you own you inbox. Not the other way around. If you're a slave to them...then YOU need to change something.

[Michael 🤖🍀 @EMColumbus]

@dklineii Hmm, this looks familiar. I didn’t realize it was considered to be so bad!

[Michael 🤖🍀 @EMColumbus]

Focus takes courage.

The courage to step forward with what needs your attention.

The courage to ignore the rest and proceed anyways.

[Michael 🤖🍀 @EMColumbus]

When you gain more responsibility you find out real quick if your systems scale or not.

[Michael 🤖🍀 @EMColumbus]

if there's anything I've learned dabbling with @Kalshi this year, it's that 'confident right' and 'confident wrong' do in-fact feel exactly the same.

[Michael 🤖🍀 @EMColumbus]

@Memberthegame I was just relistening to the 4 DKC eps…how timely!

[Michael 🤖🍀 @EMColumbus]

Leading with influence is rare in corporate environments

[Michael 🤖🍀 @EMColumbus]

No sentence portends failure more than:

“I can do hard things.”

[Michael 🤖🍀 @EMColumbus]

Overthinking kills way more dreams than underthinking

[Michael 🤖🍀 @EMColumbus]

Leadership skills are not a requirement for climbing the ladder. They're a nice to have.

[Michael 🤖🍀 @EMColumbus]

@PMInstitute What does "real connection" look like in a transactional world?