Tag: advice
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🗂 Fiction vs. Nonfiction
> The only difference is that with nonfiction, every fact in the book must refer to a document or a source outside of the book. www.advicetowriters.com/home/2019…
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🗂 Avoiding worrying
> What you see and how you perceive yourself is not really how anybody else sees you. There are people whose natural state is to worry about things. My natural state is to try not to let things worry me, because I don’t like the feeling of being worried. I don’t like confrontation, because I…
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Link: How to have a good conversation
What is conversation for anyway? I don’t even recommend being charming, or trying to be charming, unless a work situation is forcing you to do so. Let yourself be sullen when the mood beckons. Feel free to let eye contact lapse. Don’t repeat back what you’ve heard. Say something surprising. Be willing to go meta. …
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Link: Bulls**t Jobs (Part 1 of ∞)
“It’s too soon to have a good sample size. But it seems to usually work. I think it works because there is nobody at Mr. Smith’s workplace – maybe nobody in the entire world – who cares whether Mr. Smith brings a chair into work. Somebody wrote up a procedure for employees using special chairs,…
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Link: Stop Playing Devil’s Advocate, and Other Advice for Better Decision Making
I think the idea is, they know the devil’s advocate is a game, so they don’t take it seriously enough to be useful: “When someone truly believes something different than you do, it has a stimulating quality for your own thinking. When you’re roleplaying, you can’t argue with the person who’s pretending, if you will.…
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Link: How to take, and benefit from criticism
“Taking criticism is the search for actionable feedback.” Related: curiosity is a good shield against the world crushing your self-confidence. Original source: How to take, and benefit from criticism
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Link: Books To Base Your Life on (The Reading List)
Self-help/improvement type-stuff, mostly. Original source: Books To Base Your Life on (The Reading List)
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Link: Stoicism made simple
Aside from the last, this is good advice for any advice format, I including the hustle-medium of marketing: “– Stoicism is focused on uncomplicated theories of life – Stoicism is so clear that you can take action from the advice immediately – Study is not required to understand Stoicism – The most read Stoic is…
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Link: Write it down
“Whenever someone asks me to do something that I think seems ill-conceived in some way, I ask them to write it down. That’s it. Because writing is high effort. Making sentences is the easy bit, it’s the thinking I want them to do. By considering their request it slows them down. Maybe 30% of the…
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Link: Security basics
“If you’re in the field of cybersecurity, a lot of what we’re preaching will sound extraordinarily basic to you. It is extraordinarily basic. We as a nation are not at a point where we have done the extraordinarily basic things.” Original source: Security basics
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Link: It’s time to get in to more meaningful “bar fights”
Use the functioning meatware for your n-mode silos, just make sure you don’t apply the same process to each silo, if that process doesn’t work for that type of technology and approach. Original source: It’s time to get in to more meaningful “bar fights”
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Link: My advice for a Paris visit
“If you want to spend forty euros for a very good but not revelatory lunch, find a “cool” area with lots of restaurants and poke your head in at their opening, at 12:30, to ask for a table. By 12:45 it is too late and you are screwed and back to your favorite cheese shop.…
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Link: Keep a common place book
“Wisdom, not facts. We’re not just looking random pieces of information. What’s the point of that? Your commonplace book, over a lifetime (or even just several years), can accumulate a mass of true wisdom–that you can turn to in times of crisis, opportunity, depression or job.” Original source: Keep a common place book
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Link: Being a Sober Parent in a Wine Mom Culture
Parenting is hard, so take a bath and get ice cream. Original source: Being a Sober Parent in a Wine Mom Culture
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Link: The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent?
“I had experienced being judged as a mother, when I periodically left my son with my husband from the age of six months – he is six now – to go away to write. I only departed for a week at a time. But who knows what I might have done had I lived in…
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Link: Why Are We Still Talking About the ‘Millennial Problem’ in the Workfor
“All the ‘demands’ millennials have that people think are so outrageous are things everyone wants–work/life balance, recognition when they do a good job, a sense of purpose–this is all stuff managers should be giving to their employees, anyway,” says Michael Greer, a digital marketing consultant who has led employee training and development initiatives for over…
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Link: The dangers of faith in data
“Faith in data grows in relation to your distance from the collection of it.” And other traps of getting too much confidence in data driven decisions. Original source: The dangers of faith in data
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Link: 9 rules of design research
“Only after you have a goal will you know what you need to know. And you have to know your question before you can choose how to answer it.” Original source: 9 rules of design research
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Finding talent in tech
My column this month in The Register looks at “the skills gap” most hiring managers see when it comes to tech skill. The suggestions for fixing it are, of course, to fix the framing, expectations, and profile of people you’re looking for. As Andrew Clay Shafer put it: there is no talent shortage. Source: “You…
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