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by absolute100 4y ago
"I made a pact with myself — I don’t want to be led by fear. When I identify that I’m avoiding a decision due to fear, I stop to think of the worst case scenario, which for me is to be led by chance rather than creating my chances. I t
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Navigating Your Career Towards Your Own Definition of Success – By Miri Yehezkel(miryeh.medium.com)
2 points by absolute100 4y ago|1 comments
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by absolute100 4y ago
Sahil Bloom is a terrific thinker and writer I enjoy following on Twitter. I often take the first principle of "Draft Fast, Edit Slow" to an extreme - the easiest way to draft fast is to talk and record yourself. Then use a transc
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The Power Business Writing Guide – By Sahil Bloom(sahilbloom.substack.com)
1 points by absolute100 4y ago|1 comments
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by absolute100 4y ago
Polina Pompliano got me thinking about leveraging stories to capture and share knowledge inside the company. The story can help retain facts, relationships, formulas, warnings, upside, or anything relevant to doing the necessary work. What
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Story-driven learning can help you master any subject(theprofile.substack.com)
17 points by absolute100 4y ago|5 comments
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by absolute100 4y ago
Measuring the adoption and usefulness of internal tools to optimize the organization's productivity and efficiency is extremely hard. Share it in your organization and discuss which metrics you'd like to optimize for. How do you k
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Spotify Backstage – How we measure Backstage success at Spotify(backstage.spotify.com)
1 points by absolute100 4y ago|1 comments
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by absolute100 4y ago
David Noël-Romas shares 7 practical ways for you to better manage your time and energy. "Paying themselves first" is golden: "engineers who understand the extralinear benefit of continued un-interruption can schedule their fo
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Time Management for Makers(github.com)
1 points by absolute100 4y ago|1 comments
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by absolute100 4y ago
If you're a technical leader, Tim Reynolds's post will challenge the "autopilot mode" you might have today when reacting to different situations the team is dealing with. Map the type of efforts you're leading today
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How to Influence Attitudes on Your Team for Better Results(biodigitaljazz.tech)
2 points by absolute100 4y ago|1 comments
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by absolute100 4y ago
John Cutler with another excellent post that helped me figure out the time horizon to aim for when setting a strategy and thinking of OKRs. Can we use it to set a North Star for the department and not only for the company? Can we define the
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TBM 25/53: Persistent Models vs. Point-in-Time Goals(cutlefish.substack.com)
1 points by absolute100 4y ago|1 comments
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by absolute100 4y ago
"Instead of looking for a mentor, just find somebody who can answer some questions you have. Then, if you think they can answer some more, ask them again. In reality, a mentor is mostly just somebody that answers questions more than on
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Stop Looking for Mentors – Stay SaaSy(staysaasy.com)
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by absolute100 4y ago
"In practice, your rating in this system is not a rating of your work performance, it is a rating of your manager’s storytelling in these calibration meetings." -- Kent Beck will get you to think about how you run Feedback (or Per
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Ratings as Incentives – By Kent Beck – Geek Incentives(geekincentives.substack.com)
1 points by absolute100 4y ago|1 comments
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by absolute100 4y ago
Dan Shipper wrote a post that resonated strongly with me. It's as if I wrote it myself, suffering for the same things Dan writes about and finding ways to manage my energy better. What did you find out about yourself recently that made
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What is underneath productivity? – Superorganizers – Every(every.to)
1 points by absolute100 4y ago|1 comments
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by absolute100 4y ago
Tomasz Tunguz with an interesting question that will make you pause and think. It's a question that you need to answer often in a particular context: is it wartime or peacetime? What's the stage of the product? The company? How&#x
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What Makes a Great Leader?(tomtunguz.com)
32 points by absolute100 4y ago|6 comments
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by absolute100 5y ago
An important reminder from Candost Dagdeviren: "Assuming consensus in the absence of objection leaves out the good, bad, and diverse ideas—all of them. Many companies work hard to create a diverse culture yet fail to take advantage.&qu
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Don't Assume Consensus in the Absence of Objection(candost.blog)
4 points by absolute100 5y ago|2 comments
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by absolute100 5y ago
Being promoted to Staff Engineer levels and above has to be around the impact you're working on and producing visibility around it - where are we heading, can we feel the confidence we need when you lead it, how others around you feel
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Being visible(lethain.com)
65 points by absolute100 5y ago|12 comments
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by absolute100 5y ago
A great way to grow is to be around people who can help you push your limits in areas of interest (where they're the experts). Even better is to find mentors who can devote the time to teach you and help you build shorter feedback loop
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The Mentorship Diamond – Mike McQuaid(mikemcquaid.com)
2 points by absolute100 5y ago|1 comments
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by absolute100 5y ago
"The real magic of connections at the office was that we were having these connections without trying. It’s not that they were better, it’s that they were effortless. But they didn’t work for everyone in the same way. They often reinfo
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Intentional connection in the digital office – Seth's Blog(seths.blog)
1 points by absolute100 5y ago|1 comments

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