I liked this article a lot! Several points resonated with me.
My favorite one that I'm trying to embrace more lately: “Do your deepest thinking with co-conspirators (not the people you’re trying to influence).”
https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/20-things-ive-learned-as-a-systems
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This episode just got published, check it out! 😄👏🏻
https://maintainable.fm/episodes/casey-watts-culturesmithing
You’re likely experiencing optimism bias lately on SOMETHING — can you figure out what it might be?
Do you ever wish you could type :emoji: in apps other than Slack and have it become the actual emoji?
I've been using this for so long I forgot about it! It just loads up the Mac autocomplete with all the emoji:
Stress Accumulation
I like the bucket metaphor from James Clear: https://jamesclear.com/cumulative-stress
In my mental model it’s inverted — the liquid is toxic green stress. A difficult work environment etc fills the bucket with “accumulated stress”, and and resting etc helps to drain it.
Today I learned the term "multi-criteria decision analysis" or MCDA. There are a lot of ways to mathematize decision making! This neat web tool showcases some of the methods: https://decision-radar.com/
Do you ever get into "strategy" discussions where it's clear you're talking about totally separate things? It happens so often!!
We can do better -- by figuring out a shared "taxonomy" of concepts and terms.
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When you get feedback about someone else, how can you be supportive without “triangulating”?
This article makes a lot of great points 👏🏻😄
GitHub - cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends: Friends don't let friends make certain types of #data #visualization - What are they and why are they bad. – https://github.com/cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends
How can you tell when a relationship is in danger of failing?
Gottman’s “Four Horsemen” are: Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling
(They’re even based on empirical studies!)
I love “duh” empirical studies 👏🏻
“turning off your camera helps reduce video meeting stress”
https://blog.asana.com/2022/07/reduce-video-meeting-stress/
Less duh: hiding your “self view” can help mitigate it a lot!
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