Sitemap - 2025 - Wes Kao's Newsletter
How to get faster approval from your manager
Observe, assert, and validate (OAV)
[Fundamentals] Start right before you get eaten by the bear
Why "'no' is a complete sentence" is dangerous advice
Stop trying to change your manager
How to be an empathetic manager (without becoming a therapist)
To sound more sincere, do this
How to delegate while maintaining high standards
Take 3 minutes to delete these words and improve your writing forever
Everything takes longer than you think
Leaders, stop accidentally scaring your team
People judge the average of your achievements, not the cumulative
What you give airtime to will expand
Why high performers make assertions: The difference between insights, suggestions, and assertions
You are wasting your warm intros
7 Phrases I use to make giving feedback easier for myself
My new episode on Lenny's Podcast
Part II: Nuances when using the "inverted but" technique
Why you should get buy-in throughout a project
The only way to stop the rat race
The trouble with "good enough"
Develop adjacent skills to become a sharper operator
Stop apologizing for reasonable business decisions
Picking your battles when you are hyper-rational
No, I don't want to hop on a call