Quick: what is the first thing you should do when you get hired or promoted to a new job? First, three things not to do: Do Not fire someone to establish your authority. I worked with a dude once who, when promoted to a new job, established his authority by firing one person on the …
I have been reflecting lately on the kinds of things that bring a sense of accomplishment to me. Yesterday I had a win at work - I reduced some unnecessary work that would have bogged down an implementation and which had a huge opportunity cost. I thought, "Score!" and then Pitbull's Fireball came on Pandora …
Yesterday, I had a panic attack. For no reason. Well, there was a trigger, but not a reason. The trigger was relatively innocuous. Something that happened at work. Someone gave me some feedback about something I was working on, on how I was defining the metrics. The feedback they provided made sense, looked at rationally. …
Do you make life harder for yourself than it has to be? I think a lot of us do. I was reflecting this morning on one of my nieces, who makes life a lot harder for herself than she has to, often cutting off her nose to spite her face. Anything her parents say is …
I read an article the other day in The Atlantic by Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen about How to Care Less about Work, an except from their new book, Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working From Home. I read the article with a deep resonance and a sense of …
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