Life
How is your Sunday? From my last update in June, I had an intense month of May and decided to take a break from posting weekly. I'm happy I slowed things down. I went to physical therapy and found out I have a frozen shoulder! 🥶 I have a
Communication
Thank you for your patience while I took a 1-month hiatus from posting weekly. It wasn't planned at all, the last 4 weeks have been an overload and I didn't have the mental/physical capacity to write on my downtime. Highlights: 1. Got Club Suite seats
Burnout
This past week, I had the biggest personal win in the last 2 years at Amazon. I presented a 12-page proposal to 7 directors proposing to shift the organization from Engineering to UX/Product. Given the leadership team are SDMs, it's a long shot at the moon. I
Design
Let's define what it means when we say design is not good? 1. When the users of the design say, it's not good. (Obvious? 😳) 2. When after you've explained the rationale, the audience doesn't understand. 3. When you turn in incomplete designs,
Promotion
If you attended my session on Developing a Career Strategy on ADP last Saturday, thank you. It was a great turnout. I learned a lot from the questions; they gave me ideas for iterating upon my content. A nice bonus was making new connections, even with people who couldn'
Career Growth
I'm doing a 45 min talk on ADPList where I will share my experience developing a career strategy. This session is not about troubleshooting Jobs but an overview of how to frame impact effectively. I'm taking one of the posts I've written a few
Career Growth
The Peter principle says, "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence."
Communication
6 tips on increasing influence.
Frameworks & Mental Model
Need experience for job, but need job for experience.
Frameworks & Mental Model
A story about raising the bar on quality.
Writing
Perception is the communication problem.
It was an accident.
