Members only AMA November AMA: relevant to your interests Subscriber lead question post for November.
Burnout Sunday scaries 👻 Sunday scaries is a slang describing the anxiety of starting the next workweek. The best time of the week to think about quitting or quiet quitting.
Members only Influence Featured How to get better at influence Six pillars of influence and what it means.
Leadership Featured Design thought leadership Everybody gets to choose their version of a hard choice.
Members only Vision How to get buy-in on your ideas? Keep an idea humble, succinct, and outcome oriented.
Life Summer ‘23 musings config, authenticity, and kardashians 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 Disagree and commitment 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 Pitching proposals to leadership 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
Members only Design Delivering short-term vapid improvements 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,
Members only Promotion 10 tips on getting a 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 Tune into "Developing a Career Strategy" talk on April 8, 1 pm 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 Adobe firefly AI, tech layoffs, and career strategy talk The Peter principle says, "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence."
Members only Communication How to build trust, consensus, and influence 6 tips on increasing influence.
Members only Frameworks & Mental Model Career growth and life strategy Need experience for job, but need job for experience.
Members only Frameworks & Mental Model Featured Design is governance A story about raising the bar on quality.
