Thoughts on Being Effective
I recently read Peter Drucker’s The Effective Executive. Like so many others before me the book had a large impact.…
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Losing Someone Great From Your Team
Losing someone great from your team is a hard blow. Hopefully when this person tells you they are moving on…
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The Humility of Injury
Right before Labor Day I fractured my ankle in two places and partially tore three ligaments. It was obviously painful…
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It Ain't All Talk - Principles of Team Communication
It's a truism that communication is vital to a team's success. But the umbrella of communication hides a lot of…
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Don’t Sell Yourself Short — Lessons in not F*cking up your job interview
I interview a lot of people for a lot of different roles at a range of seniority levels (many more…
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The Kippah at (Not) My Jewish Wedding
I’ve written a bit about the interfaith journey my wife and I are on, but mostly this has centered on…
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Don't Study Like I Wrote Wedding Thank Yous
Don’t study like I write wedding thank you cards. Study like my wife wrote hers. I got married in August…
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Data Slogs: Creating Alignment for Ops Teams
Data slog: The often grueling and mind-numbing process of cleaning and standardizing your data to ensure it is reliable enough…
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Victor Sowers
I'm a curious thinker with broad interests spanning startups and company building (including managing), philosophy and self-improvement, and investing and finance. I built this site because I am constantly writing about all of these varied things that are on my mind. Practically speaking, I am a co-founder of GoStudy, an ed-tech company, and run revenue operations & lead gen at CB Insights, one of the world's fastest growing data SaaS companies.