Show what you care about
Hey!
Welcome back to another week of musings! Last week, I was out due to some time off in my home country (Guatemala).
After some restorative time, I'm back in the game. And I hope you had a restorative time as well.
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Things I discovered in the past week
- I've been reading about Intel's fall! It's too early to call it a fall, really, but it's interesting to have a CEO like Andrew Grove at the peak of Silicon Valley and then be downhill from there.
- I began reading Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You, which resonates with me now. Once I finish, I'll write a review.
I was recently thinking about how, in a remote-first world, we use Slack (or your org's messaging app) messages as a proxy for showing what we care about.
Since we're not all present in the same room, messages are what we use to signal that we're "present" and what things we care about.
This proxy means that if we "speak" less, then whenever people see a message from us, they know we care about the topic. This is less of a problem if you write a lot and actively participate in conversations.
This also means that we can curate or be more intentional about what other people perceive as important to us.
When people offer you feedback or comments, it comes from a place of only reading what you've posted recently (recency bias) but also only seeing the "tip of the iceberg" of what you care about, regardless of how much you write.
Take the comment with a grain of salt!
Your turn!
If you work remotely, have you ever thought about how people perceive you on the other end of your messages? Let me know your thoughts by replying to this email!
Happy coding!
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