In the first part of this series, I tried to dissect the belly of modern communication and shared the Whats. Then in the second part, I looked at how they relate with each other and what Rules we can derive from them. Now let’s see what steps we can take to ensure we are communicating…
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The last time we looked at building blocks of a communication: the Whats. Or you can think of them as the nodes, the Data Structures. This time let’s look at the mechanics, how they relate with each other, and see what Rules we can extract from them. To refresh our minds, here are the different…
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. — Reinhold Niebuhr, The Serenity Prayer I’d like to modify that into…. God, grant me the serenity to mute Slack notifications, courage to reject meetings I didn’t schedule, and wisdom…
One lens I’ve found myself toying with over the past few months is “Just in Time” vs “Just in Case”. Been wanting to share but I haven’t found a good angle or entrypoint to illustrate what this lens is all about and how is it relevant to you. But I’ll try and start somewhere. Let’s…
There are three ways to learn: knowing something, doing something, and becoming something. I know it sounds vague and philosophical. But here it is illustrated better. (Source: https://oneslide.org/2020/04/19/three-ways-of-learning/) Another way of framing this is: First, you conceptualise. You find out what something is. Then, you contextualise. You engage with it more, trying to see how…
Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash Yesterday things got heated on one Jira ticket between an Account Manager (AM) and a Presales Engineer (PE). First a bit of a context. I lead and manage the Solutions Architecture team for a data acquisition and data engineering services firm. On a day to day basis, people…
Reverse engineering Roam’s success. A lesson in product development.
I have seen a couple of tweets lately along the lines of “hey, we are bad listeners, and here’s how to get better”. The premise is that we generally have two intentions by the time we speak: Venting / just want to get things out of our chests Looking for advice And the argument is…
“Have some system going for producing content” That has been sitting on my todo list app since May 5th 2019. It has also been nagging at the back of my mind, constantly getting pushed down the priority list in favour of more urgent and reactionary tasks. The nice and easy low hanging fruits. So almost…
Is it better to be a generalist or a specialist? I started thinking about this question after seeing Dave Epstein’s new book, Range, mentioned many times in the past week within the productivity and intellectual corner of Twitterverse. The book is making a case for generalists (“people with range”) in this era of specialists. I…