I struggled with social situations for most of my adolescence. I dread face to face conversations and phone calls. I prefer asynchronous communication to synchronous ones. Only now I realised why. When you are in conversations, you are expected to either 1) share or 2) respond, right? Sharing I have jumbled, unformed, inarticulated, unidentified thoughts…
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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…
In her interview in The Knowledge Project Ep. #84, Jennifer Garvey Berger shared the idea that there are 3 types of listening: Listening to fix Listening to win Listening to learn Win: I think of this as the most surface-level listening. Dismissive. You listen in order to collect just enough data that you can use…
You don’t need to learn any other thing about productivity. I promise. Identify your Most Important Task(s) for that day. Have maximum of 2, that require at most 6 hours of deep work. Do those first. Two reasons: 1) Everything else will seem so easy after that and 2) Even if you failed to do…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Every day we go faster. We have more information, more technological breakthroughs, global events and development. We want to keep up. We shove them up our heads as fast as we could. The more we know, the more we don’t know. We are innundated with books and podcasts. Book summary services are popping up everywhere.…
So I guess I need to start accepting the fact that people feel inspired by me just existing and doing normal activities…. It always rubs me the wrong way when people say they find me inspiring. I get approached all the time by strangers, telling me “semangat”. A word of encouragement in Indonesian – roughly…