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Second-Order Thinking
May 15, 2023
Second-order thinking, which relies on thinking of long-term consequences of decisions, becomes a critical skill to learn as we grow our scope or ownership...
Fear, Uncertainty of First Times
May 8, 2023
If you've ever read, watched, or googled something from Brené Brown, you may have come across this quote she references often. "It is not the critic who...
Picking battles
May 1, 2023
Hello! The past week I had a set of multiple competing priorities that had to get dealt with. I came to several points during the week where I needed to pick...
Culture, Strategy, Brunch?
April 24, 2023
Hello! Have you ever sat down and thought about your team culture? Your manager's manager culture? The larger organization culture? What gets rewarded? What...
What you can control
April 17, 2023
I’ve spent the past few weeks struggling with things I can’t control. What makes it harder for me to deal with them is that it has that tiny glimpse of hope...
Being Effective
April 10, 2023
For the past few weeks, and as we wrapped up the first quarter of the year, I was doing a retrospective if I was being effective enough in my role. The scope...
Messy Middle
April 3, 2023
This past week has been one of those weeks where work takes you across a journey of multiple roles to play with the different teams I work with, both in the...
Programs and Processes
March 27, 2023
Hey everyone! Long time no see, the past few weeks, I've been very focused on several topics that took a lot of my time, and I couldn't find inner peace to...
How to tell a (promotion) story
March 6, 2023
One piece of advice my mentor gave me when I wanted a promotion is to tell a story that you’re consistently executing at the next level. Generally, in tech,...
Change Agent
February 13, 2023
Hello! Long time no see. I hadn’t been writing for a few weeks, something like not feeling right. Probably from all the layoffs within the company I work...
Leverage
January 23, 2023
This past week was hectic for me, with lots of running around wrapping up roadmaps and goals for the year and helping managers understand the scope and...
Beginnings and Roadmaps
January 16, 2023
During the weekend, my mom returned home after spending three weeks with us. Yesterday I wasn’t feeling in a writing “mood,” but I wanted to keep to my...
Meeting Overload
January 9, 2023
Hello! Welcome to the new week of 2023! I hope you had some happy holidays if you took time off. Otherwise, I hope you had some rest from your normal day-to-...
Year in Review: 2022
January 2, 2023
I’ve been thinking about how to write this year in review as the year has ended. Things like do X lessons learned this year, but I couldn’t settle on a...
Growing People
December 16, 2022
Growing Others introduction, past week’s recollection This past week I was part of an incident analysis for most of the week, as well as identifying...
Filling the Gaps
November 7, 2022
Filling the gaps word-count This week I had a chat with my manager, and she told me how she generally sees me working on things where “filing the gap” is...
Heroics and sustainable pace
October 3, 2022
I’m visiting San Diego for GraphQL Summit. So I’m writing this from a hotel room. I think I panicked on the first day of the conference; perhaps I’ve been...
Context Switching
September 20, 2022
I’ve had this topic a few times in the past week, around how I handled it and if I had any tips. I think there are several ways I’ve tried to handle this...
Clarity
September 12, 2022
Change is always hard, but more recently, lack of clarity has been giving me headaches! It creates such a deep “fog of war” that nobody is able to give a...
Radiating Intent
September 5, 2022
It’s Labor Day here in the US. My wife made a quick trip, and I’m alone this long weekend. So I’m writing this new issue next to my dog while he sleeps on...
Strategies
August 30, 2022
Per the usual night’s restlessness, I’m lost for words. I’m looking, not for inspiration, but for motivation. motivation to start and carry on my goal of...
Managing Up
August 22, 2022
As I was trying to write this newsletter and going through what I had done during the week. Writing is always tricky in front of the proverbial "blank...
Collaboration Across Organization
August 15, 2022
For the past few months, I’ve been part of a few programs where another organization within the company wanted and needed to change our system to create a...
Alignment with Authority
March 1, 2022
During the past few weeks, I’ve noticed that I work away from my manager for long period of times, where I’m still required to provide a proxy to her org, or...
Mind the specifications
February 1, 2022
Mind the spec The first month of the year has gone by. I still feel like the year hasn’t started. For some reason, everything has been very slow-moving...
Keep climbing the ladder
July 4, 2021
This week I had my “mid-year” conversation with my new manager. As we were having this conversation, we talked about being aligned on vision, as I’m now a...
Digital Gardening
June 27, 2021
These past few weeks have been very tiring, and I had to work a few more hours than expected. But I also took the time to research tools like Foam or...
What's up with code reviews?
June 6, 2021
I recently saw this tweet getting on my feed One of the biggest cultural shifts in my experience from Mozilla to Stripe is code review speed. At Mozilla...
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