The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones | benkuhn.net
When I started dating my partner, I quickly noticed that grad school was making her very sad. This was shortly after I’d started leading an engineering team at Wave, and so the “obvious” hypothesis to me was that the management (okay, “management”) one gets in graduate school is totally ineffective. Most graduate students, including Eve, start school right after college, i.e., without much clue about how to effectively do self-directed work.
When I started dating my partner, I quickly noticed that grad school was making her very sad . This was shortly after I'd started leading an engineering team at Wave, and so the "obvious" hypothesis to me was that the management (okay, "management") one gets in graduate school is totally ineffective . Most graduate students, including Eve, start school right after college, i.e., without much clue about how to effectively do self-directed work. At high-functioning organizations, people try pretty hard to support recent college graduates by teaching them how to prioritize, avoid getting stuck, a
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