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Here you’ll find readings of my essays, short takeaways on leadership and influence, reflections on travel, creativity, and the open web, and practical lessons drawn from real experience. Each episode is designed to help you think more clearly, lead with empathy, and build better systems—at work and in life.
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Cognitive Inheritance: Why Your Parents Trust the News That Lies to Them
Cognitive inheritance explains why your parents trust the news that failed them. They aren’t gullible — the system earned their faith, then abandoned it.
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9 Apr 2026
The City That Never Finishes
In the center of Paris, at her beating heart, burns a furnace of fire and flame. A white-hot mass with a gravitational pull on those susceptible to her charm. This magnetic force draws you in, warms your soul, and if you are lucky enough to surrender to it, you become one with her. And when…
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17 Jan 2026
High Tech, Low Touch
A journey through San Francisco’s transportation layers—from legacy taxis to runaway Waymos—and what it reveals about empathy, experience, and the systems we’re building
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4 Jan 2026
The Hidden Drags That Undermine Team Leadership Effectiveness
In 2026, the difference between thriving and surviving will come down to efficiency. And I’m not referring to the obligatory mechanical kind powered by automation, which we are all going to have to adopt, but the human kind: the ability to lead a lightweight, focused team that cuts through challenges and adapts to challenges on the fly. Yet most of us are unknowingly sailing with anchors we don’t even know we’re dragging that undermine team leadership effectiveness.
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18 Dec 2025
On The Sacred Act of Distraction Free Writing
I am back from my three-month sabbatical; an amazing benefit Automatticians receive every 5 years. I spent a significant portion of that time reading and writing (distraction free writing that is). After some accounting I put the count north of 100,000 words. Some went towards a thriller I’m writing. Others went to journal entries, reflections…
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21 Jul 2025
Brutally Honest
We wish for the courage to be brutally honest, forgetting to wish for the empathy to know when honesty becomes brutal. – Jesse Friedman
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8 Jun 2025
Banana
Times Square has an unnatural resonance, one you cannot become attuned to. It hums from electrified currents pumped into sky-high advertisements. It buzzes from worker bees shuffling across cement pathways. It aches as black and yellow caravans ebb and flow through its arteries. But there is nothing natural here. Nothing grows here. It is a…
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27 Mar 2025
It’s only a mistake if you make it twice
I used to encourage my teams and colleagues to ‘Celebrate Failures.’ Otherwise, we hide shared learnings from one another when we sweep mistakes under the rug in shame. The truth is, we all know this, we all fail from time to time. What’s important is learning and adapting. My idea behind celebrating failures was to…
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20 Mar 2025
A Note on Ego
Recently I have been more in tune with, and listening to the impact of Ego on our imagination. Our early childhood was Ego-less. We felt no shame running naked through our backyards, waving our arms, and singing songs. As children we also experience no limitations in our imagination. We were in tune with nature and…
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7 Nov 2024
No, I’m not that Jesse Friedman.
For over a decade, I, Jesse Friedman, have struggled with the perception of my identity. While this is not a valid identity crisis—I know who I am—it has been challenging to manage the reactions of followers who “Google me.” My efforts to shine as an expert have been overshadowed by the depravity and evil contributions…
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