A few years ago, I started to dabble with Scratch with my oldest son. Scratch is a visual programming environment that has a nice and low barrier to entry. You visit a web site and start dragging and dropping blocks around, hit a Run button to instantly see your changes
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“Dude, you have blood spatters on your shirt...” That’s what I should have said as I entered the surgeon’s office last Friday for some minor surgery. I didn’t. Now, we all realize that surgery involves cutting. There is going to be blood involved. However, greeting your next
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As my oldest son (10) walks downstairs, he sighs deeply and audibly. “That was quite something!” He is doing his usual dramatic my life is so tough thing again. “Tell us, what is this challenging achievement of yours?” “I put my laundry in my closet. All of it.” “You mean
“So this company Zef mentioned, the one where his new boss told him on his first day that half the people should be fired, that’s us, right?” I was catching up with a former colleague this week. One of his team members had read my post, and assumed it
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We had an interesting training on entrepreneurial behaviors at the company this week. We were asked to rank the following behaviors from “Most often” to “Least often” used. We were given them unordered, but this is how I ordered them for myself: 1. Reflect 2. Desire to have an impact
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That was awesome all! 🥳 Thanks for all the extra hours, the extra push to make this release happen! Let’s never do that again. I have career-long struggles with many things, and deadlines and big bang releases definitely make an appearance in my top 100. This struggle started probably around
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“Half of the people at this company should be fired. They’re not productive, don’t care about anything, and show zero sign of ownership. We should never have hired them.” This was what I heard from my new boss on my very first day. Welcome to the company indeed.
To sign up, please use this sheet. Apparently, not everybody saw my previous message so let me repeat: to sign up, please use this sheet. Thank you! Cross-posting for visibility @here And @here @all “ChatGPT, write an engaging slack post with the message ‘to sign up, use this sheet’ that
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“Yo, why did you not attend the event?” “I didn’t see the point, and had more important things to do.” “But it was mandatory!” “So what’s going to happen now?” “Well, I got this little notebook here with a list of names, see? What I’m going to
“So what do you think, Zef?” Ok, so this is embarrassing. Even though being present in a meeting and paying undivided attention is one of my virtues, I failed this time. I let myself get distracted by (admittedly hilarious) Slack messages from a colleague. While I shouldn’t have, I
I sometimes lie awake at night mentally preparing for a critical meeting. I’m a slow thinker, so when surprising things happen, there’s a risk that I effectively blank out. My coping mechanism is scenario planning. When I say A, how will others respond? If they respond with B,
Internal note: Until the announcement of the business pivot during the next all hands meeting, this document is to be considered confidential. Test chat transcript follows, copied verbatim. Frank: Hello there 👋 Let’s get to know each other a little bit. My name is Frank, and I’m a professional
