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I generally work on a smaller scale and usually in regards to the people around me. Did I help? Inspire creativity? Say something kind? Say something that neede
by kayodelycaon 5y ago
I generally work on a smaller scale and usually in regards to the people around me. Did I help? Inspire creativity? Say something kind? Say something that needed to be said? Learn something?
It doesn’t take much. Did you make someone else’s existence better?
You can still do big things, but don’t forgot the small ones. They matter too.
- giraffe_lady 5y agoThis is a more radical practice than most being presented here I think. Optimizing things is a cultural norm and value for most people likely reading this. I see a lot of my peers focus on optimizing their "good output" on some scale or metric, but ignore or even devalue this one. This one that, in my experience, also has a lot more daily challenges of difficult virtues like forgiveness and humility.
- randomswede 5y agoMy xmas gift to one of the other teams in the company was improving one of their alerts, so that it fires when there is an observable problem with the monitored thing, instead of firing pretty much constantly. Makes the alert more useful and saves them from alert fatigue.