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11-16-22

  1. Weak language game — drink whenever you hear it.
  2. Practice the pause, edit, talk technique
  3. Eliminate the obvious
  4. Offer the nugget of insight (did this with the status update) [throw in some breadcrumbs that people can talk about later]
  5. Don’t have to talk about process

12-20-22 - Personal brand

I define PERSONAL BRAND AS: What people say about you when you’re not in the room.

using his empathy and technical bg to lead a team of engineers

-empathy first so teams feel valued and supported-clear communication-connect people to productive data and processes-asks tough questions, reveals the elephant in the room

ELEMENTS OF A PERSONAL BRAND- Action is aligned with values and purpose- Leadership stories that show your value/results/accomplishments- Strategic messages that give people the words to talk about you- Industry-wide recognition: Broadcast your brand

02-08-23 - Peer reviews

  • Making my accomplishments feel heard
  • Keeping track of what I’ve been working on
  • Avoiding feelings of panic and procrastination

Notes (for review):

  • Paint everything as a story.
  • talk about the emotional piece of it
  • impressive accomplishment is not bragging, it’s just part of the story

Tips on giving feedback

  • Talk about the project and behavior, never the person.
    • “I noticed that your monthly reports were late on a consistent basis”.
    • Don’t joke in feedback

    • Finding positive things are great! “One way to improve would be”…

      uid: 202211161351 tags: #communication #aggregator

February 22, 2023

Go For Big Wins Rather Than Small Improvements

[This is something that came up in the context of my talk with Daniel about my promotion 202210031144. This is also a pretty common #productivity trope, so I’m going to refer back to this note whenever relevant in that context]

I think a lot about productivity, but this doesn’t really help my overall execution speed, which according to Daniel might be on the lower end of solid for L4. I think there are a couple of reasons for this:

  1. Because I can do small, consolidated tasks faster than most people, I’m more likely to #self-reflection take my foot off the gas once I’ve completed a small task, because I know I can afford to take breaks and finish things at roughly the same pace as other people.
  2. I’m not aggressively reprioritizing and making sure I’m focusing on the right things.

Both of these are somewhat related to each other. They each tie into productivity concepts I’m already aware of:

  1. For 1: I should emphasize completion-centric planning 202207052007 even more than I currently am.
  2. For 2: Every day, I need to think about the value of what I’m immediately working on, and whether it’s worth the additional time I’m spending. I don’t have a heuristic for this and I’m sure it’s going to be difficult to come up with an answer for this, but the long-term goal is just to polish my heuristic for this until I can do this intuitively, so thinking about it as much as possible (and talking to Keunwoo about it) seems like a good idea.

uid: 202210031316 tags: #productivity #favorites

February 22, 2023

# A Guide to Twitter - Tasshin

source: https://ift.tt/rOey9Zg tags: #literature uid: —

Here are some other guidelines for who to follow:

only follow people if you can imagine being friends with them (via Elias) follow people you want to talk with and talk with them (via Malcolm) unfollow people you don’t want to talk with (via Malcolm) ​follow people whose tweets you want inside you (via QC)

Who to follow on Twitter

As soon as you feel ready, start writing some of your own tweets. This will help you start sharing your own thoughts, and also give other people a sense of who you are and what to talk to you about. Here are some ideas for things to write about:

thoughts about a topic you’re currently interested in a lesson you’ve learned or a reflection you’ve had recently thoughts on a blog post or book that you read recently a joke a story or memory from your life a goal that you have

As a new account, with very few followers, you’ll be shouting into the void for a while. So, tweet all the time. Tweets are cheap. Try out different topics, and voices. Find your style. Don’t expect much of a response at first.

You can learn good reply game by watching others’ replies. What makes for a good reply? What makes for a bad reply? Emulate what’s good, abandon what’s not working for you, iterate and improve.

Ultimately, the bottleneck on good reply game is theory of mind: your ability to model what it’s like to be another person, and how they would receive your words.

February 22, 2023

# The 3 core skills that every person needs for healthy romantic relationships

source: https://ift.tt/w5Cb8oZ tags: #relationships #literature —

The first skill is insight. “Insight is about awareness and understanding and learning,” says Davila. “With insight, you’ll have a better idea of who you are, what you need, what you want, and why you do the things you do.” For example, let’s say you’re being really testy with your partner. If you possess insight, she says, “you might notice or realize that it’s not that your partner is doing anything; it’s actually that you’re really stressed out at work, and what you really need is to relax a little bit so it doesn’t bleed into your relationship.”

The second skill is mutuality. “Mutuality is about knowing that both people have needs and that both sets of needs matter,” says Davila. “With mutuality, you’ll be able to convey your own needs in a clear direct fashion; that increases the likelihood you’ll get them met.”

Emotion regulation means developing the ability to manage those moments when you might worry or snap. Davila gives the example of waiting for a text back from your partner: “That text isn’t coming. You’re getting really anxious. You’re checking your phone every two seconds. With emotion regulation, you’ll be able to tell yourself, ‘You know what? Calm down — the text is going to come. I don’t need to check my phone every second. I’m just going to put it away and focus on the task at hand.’”

February 22, 2023

My Interests

(This came up in the discussion of nerdiness in Friendly Ambitious Nerd 202206190239). It explains that neediness is all about exploring your interests, and being okay with whatever they are. I think it’ll be a good exercise for me to elucidate my interests so I can think about them more profoundly (and share them with others as well).

  • The one that immediately jumps to mind is piano/music in general. (I think this is representative of a strong interest in creativity). I’m not happy with the way that I left the piano, and I want to come back to it at some point. At the same time, I’m not sure if the piano is the best musical outlet for me. I’m also thinking of piano as a creative outlet, but I don’t think that it comes super naturally to me and I also don’t have any training in this creatively, so I wouldn’t even really know where to begin. (Related: How can I be creative 202206190245)
    • #update 10-04-22: I’m not sure what I was thinking when I first made this post

uid: 202206190241 tags: #living-well #update

February 22, 2023

Worker Assignment Race Condition investigation

  • Investigate how many times we get that kind of error.
  • Investigate how often we use airtable.default_shard_id_is_used in prod.
  • Draft a message to Keunwoo about the race condition discussed in the thread — there’s a ping request before the application/create request, but for some reason, the getApplicationLiveShardConfigAsync method has get “default” shard behavior built-in rather than failing or returning some other message to the callers of the live shard config async.
    • It’ll be helpful at least to clean up the comments, and document why this behavior happens and what we can do to try to solve it.
      • The current comment is out of date: it’s not just called in the create action path. Not just web server either. See the task above.
    • It feels like we’re the owners of this code, so we should probably do something to try to clean it up.
  • Move the investigation that I sent to Keunwoo into its own doc.
  • Note that we also probably want to clean up the NEW_APPLICATIONS_LIVE_SHARD_ID admin flag.

#update 10-03-22: I probably should’ve made this a doc and shared with the broader group rather than just sharing with Keunwoo. If I was doing this today, that’s what I probably would’ve done.

Created from: Airtable diary: 04-15-22 202204151410

uid: 202204151800 tags: #airtable #update

February 22, 2023