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# wayfolk
p
🥳 It's the deadline for self-reviews today ⛔
z
We get access to Workday later right? I might fill mine in late for Nick 😄
m
How do we provide upward feedback for Nick now? Most of his reports lost access to workday. sad panda
z
We get it back later, they have to provide access to payslips, tax forms etc
It was noted in some of the stuff they sent out
m
Yup. But only to a limited set of features. Providing Nick upward feedback was not one of them.
z
@Nick Hentschel you were great, good job 👍 Would work with again.
n
They extended it until Friday
a
Again, Zach gets straight to the core. The thing I miss the most in the corporate culture is communicating concise.
I've once worked with a guy who had a direct brain-to-mouth interface & he literally was letting everything on his mind onto a keyboard. Maybe that's the reason I'm so much traumatized by having to unwrap layers of text or speech.
TL;DR: I'm this kind of a person.
Don't get me wrong: the "How are you" question asked under right circumstances on the right time is a magnificent way of ice-breaking communication. We've had a ton of this going on at the beginning of the full-scale Russian war against Ukraine.
n
Azer, I'm currently reading this book: https://www.axios.com/smart-brevity It has been an improvement opportunity since my first job at Amazon to be more concise. My last manager there told me - your emails are too long (back when engineers actually communicated over email). No one is reading them. Cut to the point.
a
Ooof, thanks for a good recommendation, Philbrook! This will go to my backlog of self-improvement books I really enjoy to read.
Since we're sharing books here, this was my life-changer. A book from simple dudes like me for a simple dude like me on how to find time for never ending projects. https://maketime.blog/
n
That looks interesting, I will add it to my own list 🤝 . It sounds a little bit like what I have worked extensively with my therapist on, which is making sure I am aligning how I spend my limited time on this earth with my values
a
This! A big portion of what made my depression was never cutting time for my own valuable things, instead doing the "important" ones.
n
Unfortunately a big part of my values is "feeding and housing my family" hence spending 8 hours a day earning money lolsob
a
Even in this one could find enjoyable things. It won't be always 100% only exciting things for sure, however much better than not turning attention to valuable things at all.
You never know where you could find excitement. 3 years ago I had no idea I like cooking. Fast forward to now, I really enjoy finding odd things on the Internet and cooking them for a dinner. Like this low-carb cheeseburger on an egg-foam bun.
p
Upvote both of those books. IMO if Make Time doesn't hit, there are dozens of other books that are similar but different. Everyone has to find what works for them.
I greatly appreciated listening to Smart Brevity at 2x in a 90 minute commute only to have a certain meeting go long into 108 minutes with no clear/shared agenda.
RE: Make Time's one highlight. I took to this "Bento Method" of setting 1 small, medium, and large task for each day: https://www.bentomethod.com/bentomethod Never used the app but the method is simple and felt better as a rule of 3
j
my life hack?
this is what my calendar during a workday looks like
it’s meant to be the default view
other meetings will trump it
a
Mine looks similar, though I intentionally cut out large chunks for breaks. I need to unwind a brain in a hamster wheel.
p
I'm creating that schedule today. Probably flipped as I have more mental energy in the morning, so leetcode for IC focus. I've already created the second Google calendar but missing the Focus-type 😄
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