I’ve been looking for my next project for a while. Or more truthfully, I’ve been looking for what to do with my life for a while. The last experience that deeply energized me was building Buffer, a software company that got mightily successful in my eyes. And successful in a way that had heart and [ ] The post Building Wild Life An intentional community to connect, heal and rest appeared first on…
I don’t have a dog. I’m thinking regularly about getting a dog as part of the intentional community I want to live. I realized how much I dislike the way my dad is raising his dog. There are commands, positive reinforcement, walks, all the usual stuff I’ve heard hundreds of times before when people talk [ ] The post Life advice from a book about raising dogs appeared first on Leo Widrich .
This is the saddest picture of me on the internet. I think it s also the most honest one. When I see this picture, I feel happy and scared, because, with the help of the photographer who took it, I didn t modify my facial expression in any way. I just let it hang loose and this [ ] The post Radical Presence An 8 Week Program to create a life you will mostly hate, occasionally love definitely not…
This is a photo of me taken by a photographer the Forbes team sent to my apartment for a story in their magazine in 2017. Let s call it the height of my success. I weigh about 220lbs on a 6 4 frame, can deadlift 485lbs for two repetitions, and am as shredded as I’ve ever been [ ] The post Looking good vs Feeling good: My true story about success appeared first on Leo Widrich .
Below is the process and mindset I ve taught to the founders and CEOs I ve been coaching over the last years. It s also the process I used at Buffer, my previous startup. As I m building out Here, my new product, a community platform for mindful and meaningful connection, I ve gone back into the process myself firsthand. [ ] The post A simple interview script to learn more from your ideal customer…
A few months ago I started building a new product. It’s called Here and we’re building a community platform for meaningful and mindful connection. As I was contemplating it, I reached out to my long-term friend and mentor Hiten Shah. Hiten was the very first person that supported me when I began my startup journey. [ ] The post 4 Painful Lessons I Had to Learn Again with My New Startup appeared…
Whenever someone asks me about my biggest mistakes from the past, I’m a “no regrets, everything had its meaning” kind of guy. But lately, as I’m back in the driver s seat of building a product these days, I had a chance to reflect both for myself and with a co-founder of mine about what I’d [ ] The post My biggest startup mistake: Thinking it would save me appeared first on Leo Widrich .
When I was a young tech founder I fell into this common trap quite quickly once we started hiring people: Trying to hold people accountable for the (often undefined) expectations I had of them. I see this as an early and easy management and leadership trap and it comes up regularly with my clients, who [ ] The post Stop holding people accountable, start treating them as adults appeared first on…
A week ago I was right in the middle of the first retreat I ever held completely on my own with a client of mine. His name is Florian Zagler and he is the CEO of Zagler Müslibär, maker of the world’s crunchiest and healthiest, and tastiest Müsli that I know of. As we planned [ ] The post How to build Selbst-Bewusstsein : My new favorite German Word appeared first on Leo Widrich .
“The people that think you’re an asshole, they already think that about you now, Leo! You might as well do what you want anyway.” This Is what my friend Ed told me when I shared with him my fears about telling some grueling stories in my upcoming book. And what people might think about me [ ] The post The people that think you’re an asshole appeared first on Leo Widrich .