When you do your job well, no one notices. When you screw up the whole internet notices – Julia Grace
during a great keynote speech at Velocity 2017 on how to build efficient engineering teams.
OverHeard
Overheard : Communication
Mark Horstman, on his podcast about when not to use email (https://www.manager-tools.com/2017/05/when-not-use-email-part-2)
No delivery of information is purely about information. Every delivery of information has some effect on the relationship that is formed during the communication or (relationship) that previously existed.
Overheard : Quote about Servant Leadership
Quote (or rather statement) by Arthur Brooks on Servant Leadership. Credits for capturing the statement and documenting it, goes to Bret Simmons.
“We in this country are facing a lack of visionary servant leadership. Any leader you can think of will say they are fighting for people, and this is a necessary but insufficient condition for being a leader, to fight for people that need you. But what we really need for real vision is level two and level three servant leadership. What’s level two servant leadership? It’s fighting for people that need you that you don’t need. Level three servant leadership is fighting for people who don’t like you. This is the problem, where we split into tribes where leaders only lead their followers.” Arthur Brooks, February 18, 2016, TED 2016, Vancouver, British Columbia
Overheard : Overnight Success
Miki Agrawal on perseverence
It takes 10 years to be an overnight success
Overheard : Work
Quote from a talk by Herschel Walker at Copart’s annual Global Leadership conference
“To get there you have to work
To stay there you still have to work”
Overheard : Kindness
Moving and thoughtful poem by Naomi Shihab Nye on kindness
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/kindness
Here is a youtube video of her reading the poem
Overheard : Comment about Hardwork
Interesting analogy to Thomas Edison’s quote “Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration” by Elizabeth Gilbert on a recent Radio Lab show
99% Oyster and 1% pearl
Overheard : Comment about what is takes to be a competent person
Came across quote by Robert A. Heinlein on a blog post by Jacques Mattheij regarding a what a competent man should be able to do
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
OVERHEARD : Comment about fudging
Actually, this is more of a read on the web post. New acronym for describing technology that doesn’t really help
CBT : Cock-n-Bull Technology
🙂
Overheard : Comment about content
Doc Searls on the conflict between content creators and consumers in the digital era
Data wants to be free but value wants to be paid for