Tagged "Work"
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Daily notes for 2024-02-29
Trying out commafeed for RSS. Dropping Wallabag. A handy tiddlywiki plugin. The Fujifilm X100VI. What's traditional IT?
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Daily notes for 2023-12-13
It's the year of Linux on my desktop. Simple GNOME window tiling. Racism word play is unhelpful and confusing. New-to-me Alastair Reynolds novel. How's the job going?
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Daily notes for 2023-06-27
Making Denote more legible in Obsidian. Ethical Uber reviews. The strangeness of being new somewhere.
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Daily Notes for 2023-06-11
First week at my new job. How I made a searchable web interface for my Denote notes with FuseJS, a Synology, and TailScale.
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Daily Notes for 2023-05-16
org-gtd, liminal state, The Fugitive and class politics, homeless sweeps vibe shift.
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Bring everyone along with inclusive leadership practices
Steps to effective, inclusive cross-functional work by leading with clarity, curiosity, and generosity.
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Retail Manager, Wholesale Manager
Some managers never get over high-touch, small-team management habits. Others forget the humans in their organization as they adopt a "scaled mindset."
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A lot of 'experiments' aren't.
What we often call "resistance to change" is really resistance to bad or poorly considered change. The word "experiment" turns up a lot in these moments.
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How to Listen to People
Once you make the shift from being a fixer who has all the answers to a leader who listens like they don't know the answer, you can build trust with the people you want to help.
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Notes on Fostering Equitable and Inclusive Behavior
At the core of whatever we want to call this period of distributed work -- hybrid-remote, distributed, new normal, post-lockdown -- is a deep and essential need for more equitable and inclusive behavior in how we work and managers need to drive it.
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Notes on Technical Leadership Groups
Remembering some principles up front will help build a healthy and inclusive culture that not only gets things done, but keeps its eye on the needs of the technical organization by raising up new talent and creating a sense of belonging for everyone.
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So You Want to Write an RFC
Hybrid-remote work requires more tools for asynchronous cooperation. RFCs provide a way to let people contribute without adding another meeting to a calendar, and they can help you become more clear about decisions.
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Supporting an Open Door Culture by Listening
Leaders often help best when they accept that they don't know all the answers.
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Thinking About Priorities
Prioritization is hard, and it's often at the root of team dysfunction and morale problems. You've got to grow beyond 'just give me more heads to get all this stuff done!
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Using the DACI Framework
As organizations scale, roles and responsibilities shift and often become less clear. While DACI and similar frameworks can be a little intimidating, you can keep it simple and bring clarity to your team.
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