Radical Listening

Stumbled upon the idea of “radical listening” on Twitter. It complements the Three Types of Listening I learned the other day, so I decided to share it here today. First, what is this “radical listening” thing? Dr. Jason Purnell, an esteemed community leader, professor, and researcher at Washington University, said this: “[Radical listening is…] listening…

Why Are We Yelling: The Art of Productive Disagreement

https://twitter.com/buster/status/1182390032671203328 Buster Benson’s book “Why Are We Yelling“ was one of my favorite books last year. I personally believe that everyone in this digital era of information torrent and opinion floodgate could benefit from learning and practicing the skill of arguing productively. It’s a light read filled with real stories and 100 of Buster’s illustrations.…

How I Read and Consume Audio/Video Content

I recently posted a list of book recommendations for Data Engineering and Data Analysis on my Facebook account. One friend made a comment that the books are quite expensive when converted into local currencies. Yes these technical books averages at USD 30 which could get you 10-15 decent meals in Jakarta, the capital city. and…

Useful app and Keyboard shortcuts (Weaving Workflow for Knowledge Workers)

Google Mail – When you need to search something but don’t want to get distracted by your inbox: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/{keyword to search for} Google forms – /viewform to fill in – /viewanalytics to see responses – /edit Google sheet – /copy – /export?format=[one_of_the_option_below] possible formats: xlsx|csv|tsv|pdf|zip|ods Google docs – Go to https://docs.new to create a new…

Create More, Consume Better

https://fs.blog/2013/07/understanding-our-need-for-novelty-and-change/ Our ability to respond to the new and different is part of what makes us human. We’re interested in creating more of whatever is outside of that status quo. Generally, this interest serves us well. In an evolutionary context it has likely saved us from extinction several times. At this point in our warp-speed…

Be a better human, not a better computer.

I think AI being so good they can do the production-line type of work for us is a GOOD thing. It frees us up to be human instead of training ourselves to be better at things that computers are good at: storage, retrieval, sequencing, logic, rule-based inference. What makes human, human? How can we be…

Delegating – The 7 Levels of Delegation

Let’s take a quick break from the “Practical phrases and scripts for non-native English speaker working in Tech” series and talk about delegation. Today I want to share a concept called 7 Levels of Delegation. This model was first introduced in the book Management 3.0, by Jurgen Appelo. First, why delegate? If you want to…