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17 articlesMy new job at Hearst
Hearst Press Release Rajiv Pant Named General Manager of Technology Platforms and Chief Technology and Product Officer of Hearst Magazines, Hearst Autos, a...
Cloudflare TV: Builders and Innovators: Interview
Cloudflare's President of Field Operations, Chris Merritt, interviewed Tech luminary and entrepreneur Rajiv Pant for the Builders and Innovators segment on...
My New Job at News Corp (Parent Company of The Wall Street Journal)
Dear Family and Friends, I'm moving into an exciting new job at News Corp, the parent company of my current employer, The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones...
Activities, Outputs, and Outcomes — A framework for your job
This is a framework for understanding, describing, and actually performing your job in a way that creates real value. After years of watching talented peop...
Management & Technical Career Growth Tracks (v3)
In follow-up to earlier work on a) versions one and two of these technical and related career tracks, b) pathways for career development in product enginee...
My next chapter
This isn’t something I thought I’d be writing – if you read my recent piece on Thrive Journal, you’d know how excited I was to join Thrive Global. I’d long...
Why I Joined Thrive Global
Sometimes in life, we reach a new starting line where we sense that everything we have experienced and done so far has been preparing us for this next step...
My Interview in TheMarker Magazine
During my recent visit to Tel Aviv, I was interviewed by the well-respected Israeli business and technology journalist Inbal Orpaz for TheMarker Magazine. ...
A career is like a garden (farewell memo to nytimes colleagues)
The following is the farewell memo I wrote to my colleagues at The New York Times. Subject: A career is like a garden Dear Colleagues, As you may know, I h...
HR Classification and Discretionary/Business Job Titles for Makers, Managers and Leaders in Technology
This article presents an organization system and policy for job titles of maker, manager and leader roles in technology staffs. Separate job titles for HR ...
Management & Technical Career Growth Tracks (v2)
This second version of the diagram illustrating technical career tracks reflects the following updates since version one: A product management track is now...
Some Pathways for Career Development in a Product Engineering Organization
The diagram below illustrates some pathways for career development in an engineering-focussed product development organization. It shows an organization wh...
Four Years at Condé Nast and Reddit: Building Digital Products for Iconic Brands
Reflections on four years at Condé Nast, leading digital technology for Wired, Vogue, The New Yorker, Reddit, and dozens of other properties.
Ars Technica Interview: IT consumerization in the enterprise
My colleague Jon Stokes who is Senior Editor and co-founder at Ars Technica interviewed me on the topic of IT consumerization, and about the shifting bound...
Management & Technical Career Growth Tracks
Described here is one way to enable technologists to grow their careers in your organization while still allowing them to focus on the type of work they ar...
Congratulatory letter from Cox on being featured in the 2005 Annual Report
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Moving to Atlanta
I look forward to living in Atlanta, a major city in the southeastern state of Georgia. I will, however, miss being around my friends in the the Philadelph...