Tag: advice
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Reject the rejection of your writing voice especially when you’re writing “enterprise grade” copy
More Writing Advice Once you identify your style, try pushing back against some suggested changes. People reviewing your work don’t always edit with your style in mind and will think it’s appropriate to change it. This is especially true in business writing, where people expect a sort of neutral, flat tone. That can be great…
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You can probably do it with a spreadsheet. 🔗 Everything is a Spreadsheet
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“Be yourself,” they always tell me. Yes, but, if I was being myself, I would not have shown up.
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I’d prefer we spread the excellent everywhere instead of just centering it in one place.
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AI is not for experts
Emma Thompson does not need Clippy Jr.: “When I’ve written something and put it into a Word document, it’s constantly saying, ‘Would you like me to rewrite that for you?’” Thompson said. The UK national treasure added: “I don’t need you to [expletive deleted] rewrite what I’ve just written. Will you [expletive deleted] off. Just…
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Make it easy for other people to pitch for you
With some generalization, this is good advice for any pitch, from corporate presentations to call for papers. The point that you need to make it easy for other people to advocate for you is a good one, rarely mentioned. 🔗 Setting up other people to pitch your idea for you
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Setting up other people to pitch your idea for you
With some generalization, this is good advice for any pitch, from corporate presentations to call for papers. The point that you need to make it easy for other people to advocate for you is a good one, rarely mentioned. 🔗 What Grant Reviewers Actually Look For (and What They Ignore)
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Friendship is difficult
If you were natural you would be a moss. Moss doesn’t have friends. Moss just spreads, cold and damp and indifferent, and sometimes another moss spreads nearby, and together they make a bog, and then the bog swallows a horse.” From An Existential Guide to: Making Friends
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high production value ≠ rizz.
Tips on doing corporate videos. It’s almost: be less polished. Plus, The Kids Slang. 🔗 high production value ≠ rizz.
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Festina lente / make haste slowly
The meaning of the phrase is that activities should be performed with a proper balance of urgency and diligence. If tasks are rushed too quickly then mistakes are made and good long-term results are not achieved. Work is best done in a state of flow in which one is fully engaged by the task and…
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The Rule of Threes
Unless you’re skilled otherwise, always present, think, and communicate in sets of three. It’s not always the best, but it’s always the optimal mix of works and doable. As he says, you can also go with just one idea explained three different ways. If you’re lucky enough to have just one idea you need to…
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Buy things that have low competetive advantage
This is good framing and wording: “Reexamine your ecosystem and identify where ‘buy’ delivers scale and where selective ‘build’ unlocks advantage.” 🔗 Build Vs. Buy: Regaining Control To Deliver Digital Workplace Value
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Good parties
For when you want to be that accountant or in the first Ghostbusters. 🔗 21 Facts About Throwing Good Parties
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“rust out,” the new “burn out”
The never ending quest to keep doing what you’re good at and get better at it…rather than making another PowerPoint about what you worked on last week. // “One of the biggest contributors to rust out is spending your energy in places that don’t align with your unique talents and skills. In my own experience,…
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tech-culture sayings
“Laws can be opinions on inevitabilities in the world of software engineering, or wry observations on unavoidable realities.” // A round-up of all those laws and bromides tech world people use. 🔗 Hacker Laws
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Programmer aesthetics: “your engineering taste is composed of the set of engineering values you find most important.”
Programmer aesthetics: “your engineering taste is composed of the set of engineering values you find most important.” // And: “most bad taste comes from inflexibility. I will always distrust engineers who justify decisions by saying ‘it’s best practice.’ No engineering decision is ‘best practice’ in all contexts! You have to make the right decision for…
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Low quality content production is a higher quality of life
‘I think the level of quality that everything has these days, every image, every website, every song, every video also has downsides. It defining the “norm”, the expectation we have from one another has two main issues that keep irritating me.’ 🔗 The Professionalism Trap
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The intelligence is in the user – The robot is only as good as what you bring to it.
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Occupying TikTok with love – “And TikTok is full of advice about how to break out of this ‘200 views jail’ – have a niche, have a hook, look at trends – but maybe instead we could just think ‘how beautiful, TikTok are going to share my thing with 200 random people scattered around the…
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