Flounder Mode #7: Crafting Creative OKRs
Hello again! 🏔️
This week, I’m continuing my sabbatical and will be doing an adventurous outdoorsy trip, and will be off-the-grid until next week. I’ll probably write more about that next time!
Until then, here’s something I really liked from my personal archives.
Topic of the Week
Crafting creative OKRs (2023)
Learning about OKRs for the first time can be tough. I think at face-value, they seem straightforward, but only until you are knee-deep into planning do you realize how annoying difficult it is to craft a good one. Sometimes, it feels like you are being overly prescriptive, and other times, the OKR can feel so abstract that it doesn’t even feel like it’s grounded in reality.
I had a discussion with one of my colleagues back when I was initially learning how to think about OKRs and his advice always stuck with me: OKRs should inspire creativity. The best ones always do!
Something interesting I read this week
On Writing by Stephen King
So let’s assume that you’re in your favorite receiving place just as I am in the place where I do my best transmitting. We’ll have to perform our mentalist routine not just over distance but over time as well, yet that presents no real problem; if we can still read Dickens, Shakespeare, and (with the help of a footnote or two) Herodotus, I think we can manage the gap between 1997 and 2000. And here we go—actual telepathy in action. You’ll notice I have nothing up my sleeves and that my lips never move. Neither, most likely, do yours.
Stephen King’s memoir and advice on how to be a great writer is an incredible resource not only into his unique life, but for how to basically write anything well. He mainly focuses on fiction, but I find that the advice spans across creative literature, even general communication. I’m still reading through this one but I highly recommend it! It’s a short one but an impactful one.
Ideas from around the web
This is a crawl of many routes that you can add to your personal site, to make any info you want about yourself more accessible. I’m going to implement some of these pages soon!
This is an incredible overview of some celebrity drama you probably never heard of, but the morale of the story is that you should be kind to people and not burn many bridges. Highly recommend the whole deep dive here.
The creator of Claude Code’s Claude setup
Another “this is my setup” kind of post, but it’s very interesting because it gave me inner insight on how the Claude Code team develops and works on Claude Code. I find that you really do have to be good at multi-tasking and orchestrating to use AI coding agents effectively these days.
Note: you will have to click through to the actual post here. I recommend the
xcancelone since it’s more accessible one. I think the discussion around this is also interesting, which is why I linked to the Hacker News post.
And that’s it for this week! I’ll be doing a lot of reflecting while in the wilderness. It’s always nice to disconnect a little, and I’ll be sure to have lots to write when I get back.
Please continue to leave feedback for me, or your thoughts on anything. Take care, and see you all soon!