Tag: advice
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The customer is often wrong – Reminder shout revealed preferences.
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THE RIGHT PEOPLE – Driving subscribers: “Write a post that will resonate with the person you’re emailing. Yes, even if it’s just that one person. Email the person the link. Maybe they subscribe, or at least reply and you two catch up, and who knows where that leads?”
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Need to contemplate the difference and overlap between “being genuine” and “being a jackass.”
Detroit, 2015. Wastebook “I’m still in my pajamas — haven’t changed since Tuesday night. I’m also drinking a fair amount…” ProfG. “My conspiracy theory has a much higher budget.” Lordess. “To create this post, I used a cascade of AIs.” Tomasz Tunguz. “improvident” is an adjective meaning lacking foresight or failing to plan ahead, often…
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– Stop Team Topologies – Don’t use an understandable system to avoid asking why you’re doing anything in the first place. // Or: all the value is in the “it depends.”
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Some advice and good practices when integrating an LLM in your application – Yup!
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How to Keep Learning at Work — Even When You Feel Fried – Enterprise Mindfulness: find out what you want to focus on and personally find valuable, then use your own motivation to structure work that fits your own goals. Also: try to have less toil/cognitive load.
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How public intellectuals can extend their shelf lives – Spend a lot of time steering yourself to be optimistic, and engineer a continuous drip of new ideas and perspectives.
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Words to Avoid and Replace – Some good Business Bullshit word translations and optimistic-ization.
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15 hours a week – ‘And yet, for most of that time, I’ve continued to find that exertion harder to exercise than most, while my flair and ability have gained me attention and love, I’ve seen less of whatever today’s equivalent is of “a satisfactory grade in the public examinations”’
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Don’t be results-oriented – Make sure your factory is functioning well.
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Measuring Engineering Productivity, at Google, circa 2020 – “If the decider doesn’t believe the form of the result in principle, there is again no point in measuring the process.” // Some great advice in here about improvement programs. Come up with metrics and needs from the (economic/strategic) stakeholder who has the power to make changes.…
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How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written – Fast to post, few approvals, technical peer review. // My experience: in general, you’re better to post on your own, and let whoever owns the blog figure out if they want to report it, rewrite it, or link to it. Besides: better to own your content…
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A Letter from Paul Auster – When the rejection is more comforting than the confirmation.
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Don’t Taste One Coffee – “Humans are really good at comparing.” // So, when you want to make a decision, put look at a lot of options. Not just the trick of the one you want, a middling one, and an obvious no, but lots.
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“Management avoids firing people with paper trails.” Corporate Camouflage
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Exit, Voice, and Loyalty – “The Exit, Voice and Loyalty model states that members of an organization, whether a business, a nation or any other form of human grouping, have essentially two possible responses when they perceive that the organization is demonstrating a decrease in quality or benefit to the member: they can exit (withdraw…
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101 things I would tell my self from 10 years ago – “You are high in neuroticism, a trait that correlates with worse social relationships and an unhappier life. Sorry; there’s not much you can do about it other than be aware of it. Its saving grace is that it means you are attuned to…
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Content Editing: How To Handle Major Rewrites – Pretty detailed guide to editing (corporate) content that isn’t good enough.
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