Benjamin Tumbleson

Benjamin Tumbleson

San Francisco
Strategic Initiatives at FLYR. I focus on efforts to create growth: new verticals, GTM strategy, partnerships, and more. Last role: led ML SaaS implementation teams. Prior: Deloitte Consulting

How inefficient am I?

When work has no baselines, how do you measure productivity and efficiency? And what if you're billing for that time? No answers here, just a thought process.

India: Retrospective

A travel blog of my time spent in Mumbai, as a part of a two week business trip I took in February of 2018.

Is productivity linear?

Sometimes it’s unclear how, if at all, the work you’re doing at a task level is contributing to a final product. One’s productivity might as well be zero, until you find the right route forward. If you were to graph the completion of a task/epic over time, I would venture it is far from linear.

iMessage and the silent takeover of SMS

Ever flinched from a green bubble in your iPhone chat? Time to thank Apple to taking SMS hostage, ensuring conformity along the way. I get it - it's tough to leave the Apple ecosystem, but have you considered looking over the walls?