I often struggle with meetings with multiple of my direct reports. What should I discuss there vs. 1:1s? It can save me time to update all at once on some topics vs. discussing 1:1, but then it becomes less deep… Read More »Team Meet vs 1:1
Engagement is a scam. [Manager Tools] Three Current Modern Management Scams – Part 1 #managerTools https://podcastaddict.com/manager-tools/episode/218341279 via @PodcastAddict
Very true from my experience. “Most organizations over-invest in executive alignment and employee engagement and quietly under-invest in the layer that determines whether either one works. They treat middle managers as a communication channel, not a culture-driving force. They’re told… Read More »Ignoring the Middle: How Overlooking Middle Managers Erodes Culture
Priority should be just one thing. It is the first thing to do. If you have multiple priorities, you do not have priorities. You can have multiple important stuff to do. You need to pick one priority and chase that,… Read More »Having One Priority
In a podcast guy explained that even tough medicine for his cat help her and he knows it, there is no way to explain it to the cat. I think it is dangerous to think in the same way about… Read More »You Cannot Explain Medicine to Cats
Sometimes it is worth to address a possible issue before it happens. Security, savings, taking care of your own health. Sometimes it is a waste of time. Making perfect software architecture, perfect API for a prototype. We cannot solve all… Read More »Solving a Problem Before It Occurs
I think thanks to AI models more and more industries will become regulated and only state sanctioned people will be allowed to do some stuff. The same as it is with architects, structural engineers, lawyers or doctors. In the near… Read More »To More Regulation Thanks To AI
It is good to know how stuff breaks. “increasing complexity yields diminishing marginal returns: each new layer of administration, infrastructure, or technology demands ever-greater energy and material inputs for proportionally smaller benefits. When the energy surplus required to sustain this… Read More »Collapse: A Framework for Understanding and Navigating the Decline of Industrial Civilisation
It seems to me that people have more patience with AI than with people. If a person would be as annoying with their responses and questions as AI tend to be, you would not speak to the person anymore. Why… Read More »Patience with Technology
Shipping is the core. “it is surprisingly hard to motivate yourself to focus on the main thing. It’s much more natural to just jump into something that looks probably useful and start working immediately” https://www.seangoedecke.com/getting-the-main-thing-right/