Michael Rill
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2025
Help others to help yourself
Doing more of what you love – of friction and systems
2024
The pivot fallacy
Words to live by
The Magic of Acorns
When America was ‘great,’ according to data
Clarity
Rituals of modern product teams
The Impulse Cooktop
Adam Grant in conversation with Jennifer Garner
The metric is not the goal
2023
The art of noticing
Amazon warehouse tour
Getting things done
Excellence is a habit, but so is failure – Andreas Kling – I like computers!
Blogroll
The three kinds of leverage that anchor effective strategies
Everything Must Be Paid for Twice
… and then?
The plateau of meh
The Internet Isn’t Meant To Be So Small
God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter
The OKR Operator’s Manual
Embrace the red
Lyft’s 3P’s ritual
My new blogging machine
A love letter to my website
Managing Your Career Without a Manager
Out of Sight
2022
The days stack up
Why We Long For the Most Difficult Days of Parenthood
Using brevity to write better
Categories for journaling
OKRs and tools
Companies are not families
Staying Clear of Golden Apples
There is something in the air
2021
Incentives and tools
Adam Grant – How to stop languishing
24 hours
FancyZones – bliss for ultrawide displays
2020
Scaling yourself
Staying clear of Nazis and Sharks – Reflecting on my News Diet
Collaborative Fund: Obvious Things That Are Easy To Ignore
The dogs won’t eat it – Choosing OKRs well
Hard to discover tips for macOS
Momentum from Day One – Getting Onboarding Right
Nike ad: You Can’t Stop Us
The UX of LEGO Interface Panels
The Curse of Knowledge
Software is eating conferences – Microsoft Build and the digital transformation of conferences
Less is more … difficult – writing summaries
In defense of email
Timely advice from the Wu Tang Clan
The case of the missing hit
How to get more out of OneNote
2019
Dear Library, Thank You!
Kids
A Meditation on the Open Web
Consistency > Intensity
The Web We Have to Save
2018
Culture is not one-size-fits all
Offscreen magazine
Alan Watts & David Lindberg – Why Your Life Is Not A Journey on Vimeo
2017
HuffDuffer – The best tool that probably nobody knows
2016
From the Job Loop to the Knowledge Loop
Tech Shabbat – Going offline for a day
The Internet History Podcast
AI, Apple and Google
Keep calm and carry on
Writing well, often
Courage
Webstock 2016 – Celebrating the web’s values
On writing – Where Creativity, Fear and Action go on a road trip
Six great ideas from Above All Human
Susan Kare on her history with Apple and icon design
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
The creative power of no
2015
Writing good copy
Bad writing is a meeting factory
Taking b/s out of innovation
About this blog
How Medium’s engineering team works
Mega post on company culture
What’s for lunch? Software is still hungry
Advice to new graduates