I take everything personally and don’t trust anyone who says they don’t. It’s either a lie or a sign that they don’t care enough. Emotional detachment is often seen as a strength, but it’s often an excuse for mediocrity.
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Standards made sense 100 years ago. Efficiency and consistency were vital then. Today, they often don’t fit.
You need strict standards to build a plane, but Rock wouldn’t exist if Chuck Berry hadn’t tried the unconventional. Read full post “Try the unconventional”
When you get into a new car, you adjust the seat. Most people raise it to see the hood and the nearest part of the road. It feels like control. But we all ignore that raising the seat reduces our field of view, and we see less of what’s on the road far ahead. Read full post “Lower your seat”
Setting office hours is a pretentious practice from the nineteen-twenties. It’s an attempt to seem accessible while dictating when you can be bothered. Your team doesn’t operate on your clock, and your office hours are just another way to say your calendar is more important than them.
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We’ve been duping ourselves, believing that packing a virtual room with faces on a screen every week fosters inclusivity, collaboration, and productivity. Yet, often, particularly in distributed teams, sync meetings devolve into grids of nodding heads, with only a few voices leading the conversation. Read full post “Breaking the ‘sync’”
There’s a narrative in tech companies that often goes untold: “Open product feedback.” It’s a tale of transformation. Not the kind celebrated in startup blogs, but the kind that slowly eats into the company itself. A vibrant and innovative culture turned into an over-calculated shadow of its past. Read full post “A paradox of perfection”
The “Most Respectful Interpretation” model has sneaked into the remote working culture. It explains that you are supposed to interpret every message in the best possible light, believing the sender had only the best intentions.
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Over the past few days I watched “The Days”, a Netflix series about the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Far from flawless and clearly inferior to HBO’s Chernobyl, it is still well produced and manages to seize your attention and keep you locked in the seat. Read full post “0.2 seconds faster”
Many times, we become victims of our own choices. Not just the bad ones, but even worse, the choices that stick around well past their expiration date.
We become hostages to the ‘business as usual’ mentality, a cognitive straightjacket that stifles change and breeds complacency, and all those stubborn bad choices that we can’t just seem to shake off. Read full post “The status quo bias”
Not all learning has to be confined within classroom walls or follow a rigid checklist. Often, the most valuable lessons emerge as we venture off the beaten path.
As someone who embraces “Experiential learning” – learning by doing and making mistakes – my approach differs from the traditional method of lectures, readings, and exercises. Instead, I set a goal Read full post “A different learning groove”