Build Your Career on Dirty Work | Stay SaaSy
staysaasy.com/career/2022/09/11/Dirty-Work.htmlThe Dirty Work Theory: The lamentable work that many people avoid are great places to look for high impact, low hanging fruit.
Why public chats are better than direct messages - Teamplify blog
teamplify.com/blog/why-public-chats-are-better-than-direct-messages/As a result, when you send a direct message, you distract your colleague, but when you post a message in a group chat, you don't distract them (unless you mention someone explicitly via @). From our experience, the vast majority of work questions are not so urgent that they require an immediate response. Most topics can be discussed asynchronously – you post a question when you have time, and your teammates will respond when they have time. It greatly helps to minimize distractions,...
Official myths | A Working Library
aworkinglibrary.com/writing/official-mythsLet’s engage with office culture as it really is, not how we imagine it used to be.
Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life - The Atlantic
theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/09/career-ambition-advice-data/671374/Five pieces of career advice, shaped by economics, psychology, and a little bit of existential math
The productivity tax you pay for context switching
async.twist.com/context-switching/How distraction became our default way of working and what you can do to reclaim your focus
How finishing what you start makes teams more productive and predictable
lucasfcosta.com/2022/07/19/finish-what-you-start.htmlLet’s be honest. When you read this post’s title, you thought it was obvious. Yet, most people don’t follow this simple piece of advice. You know that too, a...
All Remote
about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/GitLab is one of the world's largest all-remote companies
Writing for interfaces - WWDC22 - Videos - Apple Developer
developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10037/The words and phrases you choose for your app matter. Whether you're writing an alert, building an onboarding experience, or describing...
Hard to work with. | Irrational Exuberance
lethain.com/hard-to-work-with/Managing teams has taught me a lot about my own behaviors and motivations. For example, I overworked for a long time. This left me continually teetering on the brink of burnout, and I had no energy left to absorb the typical sorts of organizational changes that happen at any company. Despite doing good work, I handled change poorly, and I picked up the reputation for being difficult to manage. I’d like to say that I learned from my mistakes directly, but the honest version is that I ...
How To Criticize Coworkers
alexturek.com/2022-03-18-How-to-criticize-coworkers/I originally wrote this as a doc, and did a talk w/ slides in Fall 2020 at Convoy. This is very focused on how to work in a software engineering team (surprise! that’s most of what I know about!) but I’ve had friends say they’ve shown this to their partners,...
How to get the most out of your 1:1s
erik.wiffin.com/posts/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-11s/As a Director of Engineering, I have monthly 1:1s with all of my direct reports. A 1:1 (one-on-one) is a recurring meeting with no set agenda between a manager and one of their reports. The internet is full of valuable insight into how to run them from my perspective, (ex. The Update, The Vent, and The Disaster) but somewhat more limited in advice on how to make the most of them if you’re on the other side of the table.
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dscout + HmntyCntrd: Challenging Company Playbooks to Workplace Trauma
dscout.com/people-nerds/organizational-traumaDesign professionals report on organizational trauma—and the inadequate ways their orgs address It.
Normalization of deviance
danluu.com/wat/At large company B (LCB), ICs agreed that it's problematic to reward creating new features more richly than doing critical grunt work. When I talked to managers, they often agreed, too. But nevertheless, the people who get promoted are disproportionately those who ship shiny new things. I saw management attempt a number of cultural and process changes at LCB. Mostly, those took the form of pronouncements from people with fancy titles. For really important things, they might produce a...
The rise of never-ending job interviews - BBC Worklife
bbc.com/worklife/article/20210727-the-rise-of-never-ending-job-interviewsSome companies are asking candidates to attend multiple interviews. But too many rounds could be a red flag – and even drive candidates away.