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How to be a Teacher—Not an Oracle - Dscout

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Maybe it was this morning when your mom called to check up on you. Maybe it was yesterday when your Postmates delivery driver rang to let you know they were at the door. For some, phone calls mean more. Meet Behzod Sirjani, the Head of Research & Analytics Operations at Slack. He discovered his literal calling through them. “I had family in Iran and Europe, and also friends in different places,” he recalls. “So I tended to have a different relationship with phone calls than a lot of people my age.” Through his early experiences, he developed a deep interest in the way people communicate with one another. This unique relationship with communication is embedded at the backbone of his career as a UX researcher—and it’s one that has taken him from the offices of Facebook where he worked as a Senior UXR to Slack where he helms Research & Analytics Operations. There he’s tasked with scaling and democratizing research for the organization. After all, what is communication if not the ways we s

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