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2023 Year in Review

January 1, 2024

Hey everyone! Welcome to the new year; I hope you had a good end-of-year holiday and some time off. Was this forwarded to you? You can subscribe here! The...

From Implementing to Solving to Finding Problems

December 25, 2023

Hello there! This is the last issue of the year! I wondered if this one or the first of the year should be a review. But it was more appropriate to have the...

Organizational Trust

December 18, 2023

Welcome to another week of thoughts! I hope you had a good time during your weekend and can take time for the Holidays. I'm a Grinch, so I don't have days...

December 11, 2023

Hello! I hope you had a great weekend! We're getting ready to tackle the last weeks of work of the year. Some people might already be out on vacation, or...

Problem Overload

December 4, 2023

Hello! I'm still dizzy from so much walking in Disneyworld and Universal Studios parks! I hope you enjoyed your Holidays; if you are in the US, I hope you...

Marathon, not sprint

November 28, 2023

Hey everyone! Sending this one a day late, because for some reason I didn’t schedule it correctly. I hope you enjoyed your weekend. I'm on vacation after...

Content Sharing

November 20, 2023

Hey! Welcome to another week; this week is also short in the US due to the Thanksgiving Holiday. Not sure if you do Black Friday shopping, but you might want...

November 13, 2023

Hey! Welcome to another week. My wife and I had a day off this weekend and visited Big Sur because we barely traveled around California. We're mostly city...

November 6, 2023

Hey there! Welcome to another week. This week’s topic hit close to home recently. I think we all have these ups and downs, impacting not only your personal...

End of Year Feedback

October 30, 2023

Hello everyone! I hope this weekend went well for you! We did some dog-sitting with my wife; it was night and day between the 8-month-old puppy and our...

Technical Excellence Programs

October 23, 2023

Hey everyone! I hope you’re feeling well and rested. Take care as always, and learn to set boundaries! These last few weeks have been of peaks and valleys...

October 16, 2023

Hello everyone! Welcome to a new work week. I hope you had an excellent restoration time during the weekend. We spent the time with my wife doing chores...

Constraints and Trade-offs

October 9, 2023

Hey there! Welcome to another week of random musings from me. I hope you had a great weekend. It's always hard to keep a weekly schedule, and I want to get...

A Job Well Done

October 2, 2023

A job well done Hello! Welcome to another week. I hope you are well rested. I've been thinking lately about the shapes of leadership and the topic of today's...

Do the work, talk about it

September 25, 2023

Hey! Welcome to another week. I hope you had a great weekend. I spent my weekend planning some vacation time with my wife and family. Was this forwarded to...

September 18, 2023

Hello! Welcome to another week. I hope you had a great time resting. Last Saturday we went with my wife to watch Ed Sheeran live! It was a fantastic show and...

Who's doing your job?

September 11, 2023

Hello! Hope you had a great weekend! I could rest a bit more than usual, which is always a good thing. The question for this week was put on my mind amidst...

Reorganizations

September 4, 2023

Hello! Hope you had a great weekend! In the US, we have a long weekend due to Labor Day. For all you know, I might be having brunch somewhere instead of...

Are you happy where you are?

August 28, 2023

Hello there! I hope you had a great weekend. I had a pretty chill one. We had some visits, and we played board games for a few hours. This week's topic has...

August 21, 2023

Hello, Hope you had a great weekend! I'm writing this on a plane and didn't have the time to write this week's issue entirely. Was this forwarded to you? You...

August 14, 2023

Hello! I hope you had a wonderful past week. Last Thursday, we celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary by going to dinner, and we had a wonderful time! We've...

Hey everyone! I hope you had a great weekend. I've had this topic in draft and keep trying to write about it but never fully finished my thoughts. I thought,...

Maker vs Manager Time

Hello! Welcome to another week! I'm writing this before leaving for a concert in a few hours. I plan to write what I want and ask myself why I plan my posts...

Experimentation

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 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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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,...

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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...

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

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

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,...

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...

January 23, 2023

This past week was hectic for me, with lots of running around wrapping up roadmaps and goals for the year and helping managers understand the scope and...

Beginnings and Roadmaps

January 16, 2023

During the weekend, my mom returned home after spending three weeks with us. Yesterday I wasn’t feeling in a writing “mood,” but I wanted to keep to my...

Meeting Overload

January 9, 2023

Hello! Welcome to the new week of 2023! I hope you had some happy holidays if you took time off. Otherwise, I hope you had some rest from your normal day-to-...

Year in Review: 2022

January 2, 2023

I’ve been thinking about how to write this year in review as the year has ended. Things like do X lessons learned this year, but I couldn’t settle on a...

December 16, 2022

Growing Others introduction, past week’s recollection This past week I was part of an incident analysis for most of the week, as well as identifying...

Filling the Gaps

November 7, 2022

Filling the gaps word-count This week I had a chat with my manager, and she told me how she generally sees me working on things where “filing the gap” is...

Heroics and sustainable pace

October 3, 2022

I’m visiting San Diego for GraphQL Summit. So I’m writing this from a hotel room. I think I panicked on the first day of the conference; perhaps I’ve been...

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