Tag: advice
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Getting things “done” in large tech companies – If the executives don’t know you did something cool, you didn’t do something cool. Legible.
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How to Prepare for a Meeting Where Emotions Will Run High – Probably good advice for life too.
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Tactical work in the age of layoffs – Once the company drops all the work/life balance stuff in favor of work harder or get fired, shift to mild malicious compliance. // “If your company is putting pressure on you to ship more, one solution is to spend less time on testing/refactoring/glue work.”
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The good times in tech are over – ”If you were an engineer who loved working on your company’s open-source libraries, it’s probably sensible to confront the fact that the company never really cared about it that much.”
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3 prompts for better knowledge worker docs –
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Data Looks Better Naked – Good advice on formatting charts and data tables. The examples are incremental, so you can choose to go all the way, or just apply some of the design changes.
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One ‘Bad Apple’ Correct Interpretation – On the use and mis-use of “bad apples.”
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I’m Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better – Try to avoid tools that require you to acquire new tools to use the first tools.
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Four Marketing Principles That Redefine Markets from Klaviyo’s CMO – ‘“Creating fear never works, because in the immediate, you can probably prompt people to take action because they’re like, ‘Oh my! I must do something,’ but it leaves a negative perception in their mind.” “You don’t become a beloved brand over a period of time.”’
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To avoid being replaced by LLMs, do what they can’t –
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No Rules Are Implicit Rules – The European view on enlightened American management policy: “Greg, I hate to bring it to you, but working for ten fucking hours a day is not the normal hour. I don’t care if you live in America or not. The section continues with other “grand” examples of managers taking…
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The Peter Principle – by Nicholas Decker – “Promotions are used as incentives, even if they don’t always match future competence.”
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Struggling with your marketing strategy? You’re not alone. Here’s some things to think about in 2025 – I think that, like all struggling corporate functions, the answer is to make sure you’re actually doing the basics. // Also, less planning, more clicking the publish button: quality through quantity. // And, some AI use suggestions.
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Alternatives to “sorry” – American English meanings for “sorry.”
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o1 isn’t a chat model (and that’s the point) – “o1 will just take lazy questions at face value and doesn’t try to pull the context from you. Instead, you need to push as much context as you can into o1.” // Instead, give it briefs, memos, reports to start with. As always: context.
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Our Favorite Management Tips of 2024 – “Add up your total score. If you rated any of these items a 4 or a 5, you have some workaholic tendencies. But if your total score is 15 or above, you’re displaying significant signs of workaholism.”
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How to break free from your “toxic productivity” cycle – “if you’re not able to carve out even 20 minutes for yourself, then something needs to change in your life.” // Tools that find the priorities are hard: “We hear a lot about how to optimize for productivity, but what we don’t have is the…
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Tech Brats Turning 30 – “It’s easy to find yourself wondering about the conditions that made that meeting of minds possible and about all the things you could accomplish in your own life if every distraction were removed and you could sit at a desk undisturbed for long enough. Then I realize that what I…
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Give people something to link to so they can talk about your features and ideas – “Give people something to link to so they can talk about your features and ideas” – I am not overstating it when I say this is the easiest/cheapest tech marketing problem to fix that is the least done.
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Words Matter – “but the point is really that public services should be effective, not disruptive.”
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