Archive (Page 7) • Oscar Funes • Buttondown

Experimentation

July 24, 2023

Welcome to another week! I hope you had a good weekend and got some rest. Writing practice is always good, and in general, it has helped me understand what...

Ownership

July 17, 2023

Ownership Hello! Welcome to another week of this newsletter. For the past couple of weeks, I've been thinking of challenging myself by doing a daily...

Sharing as networking

July 10, 2023

Hello! Welcome to a new week and the second week of July. It's odd because we are past the year's first half, but it never sinks in on the first week. Time...

Building Relationships

July 3, 2023

Hello there! Welcome to another week of this newsletter. This week, we got July 4th Holiday in the US, and I took time off today to be with my family. I hope...

Set up for success

June 26, 2023

Hello! I hope you had a great week! This past week was a short week for me in the US. We had Juneteenth Holiday. Anyhow, let's get with today's issue!...

Extending Your Network

June 19, 2023

In the past, I’ve talked with managers and directors about networking for their reports because they generally want to help their teammates improve their...

Personal Investments

June 12, 2023

During the week, I talked with people who wanted to start as mentors but needed help finding mentees. I’ve also found that it takes work for people to find...

Liminal Space

June 5, 2023

What Is Liminal Space? Liminal space refers to the place a person is in during a transitional period. This past week was an odd one for me from multiple...

Repetition

May 29, 2023

This week is short, as it is Memorial Day today in the US. Since I’ve only lived a short time in the US, I still get pleasant surprises from the US holidays,...

Unproductive

May 22, 2023

Last week was a jumble of thoughts where you feel you’re not being productive enough and stop and wonder why you feel that way. As I left the “hard skills,”...

Second-Order Thinking

May 15, 2023

Second-order thinking, which relies on thinking of long-term consequences of decisions, becomes a critical skill to learn as we grow our scope or ownership...

Fear, Uncertainty of First Times

May 8, 2023

If you've ever read, watched, or googled something from Brené Brown, you may have come across this quote she references often. "It is not the critic who...

Picking battles

May 1, 2023

Hello! The past week I had a set of multiple competing priorities that had to get dealt with. I came to several points during the week where I needed to pick...

Culture, Strategy, Brunch?

April 24, 2023

Hello! Have you ever sat down and thought about your team culture? Your manager's manager culture? The larger organization culture? What gets rewarded? What...

What you can control

April 17, 2023

I’ve spent the past few weeks struggling with things I can’t control. What makes it harder for me to deal with them is that it has that tiny glimpse of hope...

Being Effective

April 10, 2023

For the past few weeks, and as we wrapped up the first quarter of the year, I was doing a retrospective if I was being effective enough in my role. The scope...

Messy Middle

April 3, 2023

This past week has been one of those weeks where work takes you across a journey of multiple roles to play with the different teams I work with, both in the...

Programs and Processes

March 27, 2023

Hey everyone! Long time no see, the past few weeks, I've been very focused on several topics that took a lot of my time, and I couldn't find inner peace to...

How to tell a (promotion) story

March 6, 2023

One piece of advice my mentor gave me when I wanted a promotion is to tell a story that you’re consistently executing at the next level. Generally, in tech,...

Change Agent

February 13, 2023

Hello! Long time no see. I hadn’t been writing for a few weeks, something like not feeling right. Probably from all the layoffs within the company I work...