communications
- Data is a compass not a map”
- “Vision and intuition help you identify the right mountain, data helps you get to the top.”
Bits and Bobs 5/19/25
Here’s a simple framework for creating assertions:
“Based on my insight of X, I believe that Y is true. To go a step further, given X and Y, I think we should do Z. I think it’ll work because A and B. If it doesn’t work, there’s a risk of C happening, and I’ll take care of that by doing D.”
Why high performers make assertions: The difference between insights, suggestions, and assertions
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Change introduces new form of failure. The low rate of overt accidents in reliable systems may encourage changes, especially the use of new technology, to decrease the number of low consequence but high frequency failures. These changes maybe actually create opportunities for new, low frequency but high consequence failures. Wh
Skepticism says, “I don’t think this will work. I need to understand more.” It’s an open challenge, a gesture of care cloaked in doubt. Cynicism says: “This won’t work, and it probably never could.” It’s a closed loop, often born from past disappointments calcified into a worldview.
🌀🗞 The FLUX Review, Ep. 189
Validate someone’s emotion by acknowledging it
Pause to let the label sink in. Other party will fill in the silence
Every 4th verbalization should be a label
- It seems like...
- It sounds like ...
- It looks like...
Pause to let the label sink in. Other party will fill in the silence
Every 4th verbalization should be a label
Yan-David Erlich • Yanda's Negotiation Cheat Sheet
Unlike the concrete consultant, the amorphous consultant doesn’t begin as a clear expert in what the client already knows it needs. Figuring those needs out is what those apparently aimless conversations are for. The sensemaking/patternfinding work being done there is exactly like what happens when I do ethnographic research in organizations: I’m l... See more
Amorphous consulting
- What about this doesn’t work for you?
- What would you need to make this work?
- It seems there’s something here that bothers you?