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In the short term, you are as good as your intensity. In the long term, you are only as good as your consistency.
profile_phototwitter.comThis is a good reminder, as we tend to overestimate short-term and underestimate long-term.
We only want to have intensity in the zero-to-one, but put the foundations for the one-to-hundred
Being data-driven has many merits, but its most debilitating flaws are that it favors certainty over speed and trains teams to look for subtle nuances that don’t exist 99% of the time.
Stay SaaSy • You Know What to Do
Know your technical debt, the understanding and management of which is key for a sustainable architecture. Lack of awareness of technical debt will eventually result in a software product that cannot respond to new feature demands in a cost-effective manner.
Murat Erder • Continuous Architecture in Practice: Software Architecture in the Age of Agility and DevOps (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Vernon))
At the end of meetings, recap each action item and who owns it. Signals the importance of action items and gives people the room to make any corrections to them. Everybody knows this, but few do it. Leaders who build the confidence & discipline to do it appear 20% more competent.
Shreyas Doshitwitter.comWhere does agency come from?
Today I was on a call where the person asked me about missing documentation that he couldn’t find. He mentioned that in the past, they had asked two different people.
I tried to find it in Confluence, came across an example, and then tagged those same two people in a Slack thread, and they answered.
I didn’t really do
... See moreAlways help other people. Even if you are a beginner yourself, you can always teach and give something back to those who are trying to catch up. Magical things will happen when you do. You don’t have to be a master to help someone out.
Tobias van Schneider • How to Be Self Taught
Two of the most important characteristics of good design are discoverability and understanding.
Don Norman • The Design Of Everyday Things
One of the most consistent observations I’ve had in my time in startups, scale-ups, and public companies is that smart people with context on a tricky situation almost always know exactly what they need to do.
Teams obsess about company strategy, about data, and about frameworks for decision-making. But I’ve found that for most operational decisions
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Been thinking about how I get good blog ideas. Short answer: a lot of input, tons of notes, then I look at the mess and ask what is most surprising and useful to me? then I unpack that. then I ask the question again. and prune. and then again. an example —
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