27 years ago I accidentally ran the hardest, strangest Easter egg hunt my hometown had probably ever seen.

Here’s what happened: I was 17 and decided with some friends to hold an Easter egg hunt geared to the handful of other teens we hung out with. It was weirdly wholesome of us considering we mostly drank Mad Dog and loitered at Waffle House.

As you succeed, resist the urge to defend a system just because you managed to endure it. Raise hell on the way up, then burn down toxic structures from the inside. The greatest responsibility of leadership is to tear down obstacles that keep future (and current) generations from achieving their potential. Imagine how much more people could accomplish without the emotional weight of repressive systems.

When you first start offering younger folks mentorship, your instinct is to tell them what to do—basically creating shortcuts to get where you got, only faster.

But they’re on their own path, and what you consider focused guidance can end up creating doubt or uncertainty. Rushing to the advice phase is a well-intentioned, easy mistake to make. First you really have to listen and recognize their goals and values are different from yours. More importantly their personalities are different. They’ll succeed through different approaches than you did.

Here's a weird thought experiment I tend to keep in the back of my mind: I call it The Lifeboat.

I suppose the whole idea might sound a bit bleak, but for me it's about appreciation. Here's how it works: If the company you work for were to go belly-up overnight and everyone had to leave, which coworkers would you take in your "lifeboat" to sail away and start something new together?

There’s something really broken about the way we’re taught to think about “expertise,” and I realize more and more how it’s a huge contributor to impostor syndrome and its evil twin: bullshit posturing.

(Sorry, I’ll need a brief thread...) When we come into the work world, we’re told to respect expertise. Which makes sense, but it also implies expertise is something you either have or don’t have. That’s simply not true.

We finally have details on Decatur (Ala.) police punching and detaining a black store owner—breaking his jaw—after HE called THEM to report a robbery.

It happened 3 months ago, but it's only today come to light, once again, thanks to video footage. (Info in thread below) Firstly, thanks to @aremkus1 and @aldotcom for unearthing the specifics. Read her piece here: bit.ly/2UkaywU

We're 182 episodes into the @Adweek podcast (if you count bonus eps), which feels like an appropriately arbitrary moment to share a thread of a few things I've learned about #podcasting over the past 4 years. Here we go: 1. Your first episodes are going to suck. Sure, do everything you can to get your quality as high as possible, but be zen about the fact you're only going to get better and you're learning as you go. Otherwise you'll never launch it.