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no shade, but just reading this I was sure this was written by someone who works in BigTech. Because this was very reminiscent of ceremony required for BigTech

by jatins 4y ago

no shade, but just reading this I was sure this was written by someone who works in BigTech. Because this was very reminiscent of ceremony required for BigTech performance reviews.

googlryas 4y ago
Yes, I thought it sounded like snippets for my OKRs. Could also be derived from quantified self lineage.
- wingerlang 4y ago
  I think it is more the latter. Seems more like a passion (or obsession) than something they have to do for OKRs, especially with the super detailed logging and using dedicated apps, and super optimizing them on top of that.
  - taubek 4y ago
    I keep similar list so that when I we have quarterly/yearly reviews I can recall what was I doing few months ago.
_glass 4y ago
I am blushing, because I have org mode open with my OKRs nicely tree-structured, and open tasks underneath. And, and, I giant mess of real-world task on top, that I don't know how to structure, but are somehow part of my job.
JonChesterfield 4y ago
In fairness this is probably an answer to "how to pass promotion" in such an environment. I don't have the patience so will stay with git log immediately before the deadline but have some envy for people who enjoy this sort of logging.
chriskrycho 4y ago
It happens to be the case that I do (I am at LinkedIn) but I actually started this years ago when I was working as an independent contractor/consultant. It was the only way I could keep track of having many, many different things in flight: I was working on a masters' degree, working ~full time, had two little kids, and also had several side projects going. It actually started out as just a way to help build the necessary personal disciplines to get things done, and the logging grew out of it when I realized it was really helpful for two things: my own understanding of what I had done over a given period of time, and then eventually for using at the startup I joined in 2016, and now at BigTech.
- jatins 4y ago
  > I was working on a masters' degree, working ~full time, had two little kids, and also had several side projects going. That's impressive. Probably deserves a blog post of itself on how you managed to squeeze in extra 4 hours in a day.
  - chriskrycho 4y ago
    I've thought about writing it up but never came up with a way of doing it that doesn't just sound self-congratulatory. Honestly, two really big things for me were: - At that age, I really only needed ~7 hours of sleep a night. - I had no commute. Net, that's basically an extra 2 hours a day every day over what most folks I know had/have, and that's a lot. It's an extra month of time in a year!

by jatins 4y ago

no shade, but just reading this I was sure this was written by someone who works in BigTech. Because this was very reminiscent of ceremony required for BigTech performance reviews.

googlryas 4y ago

Yes, I thought it sounded like snippets for my OKRs. Could also be derived from quantified self lineage.

wingerlang 4y ago
I think it is more the latter. Seems more like a passion (or obsession) than something they have to do for OKRs, especially with the super detailed logging and using dedicated apps, and super optimizing them on top of that.
- taubek 4y ago
  I keep similar list so that when I we have quarterly/yearly reviews I can recall what was I doing few months ago.

_glass 4y ago

I am blushing, because I have org mode open with my OKRs nicely tree-structured, and open tasks underneath. And, and, I giant mess of real-world task on top, that I don't know how to structure, but are somehow part of my job.

JonChesterfield 4y ago

In fairness this is probably an answer to "how to pass promotion" in such an environment. I don't have the patience so will stay with git log immediately before the deadline but have some envy for people who enjoy this sort of logging.

chriskrycho 4y ago

It happens to be the case that I do (I am at LinkedIn) but I actually started this years ago when I was working as an independent contractor/consultant. It was the only way I could keep track of having many, many different things in flight: I was working on a masters' degree, working ~full time, had two little kids, and also had several side projects going. It actually started out as just a way to help build the necessary personal disciplines to get things done, and the logging grew out of it when I realized it was really helpful for two things: my own understanding of what I had done over a given period of time, and then eventually for using at the startup I joined in 2016, and now at BigTech.

jatins 4y ago
> I was working on a masters' degree, working ~full time, had two little kids, and also had several side projects going. That's impressive. Probably deserves a blog post of itself on how you managed to squeeze in extra 4 hours in a day.
- chriskrycho 4y ago
  I've thought about writing it up but never came up with a way of doing it that doesn't just sound self-congratulatory. Honestly, two really big things for me were: - At that age, I really only needed ~7 hours of sleep a night. - I had no commute. Net, that's basically an extra 2 hours a day every day over what most folks I know had/have, and that's a lot. It's an extra month of time in a year!