flâneur

Ashley Barricks

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  • attrition isn’t going to be uniform across a company with hundreds or thousands of employees. It’s highly likely that certain classes of people
    Tech employee retention is a serious issue | Benjamin Yolken
  • attrition is a trailing metric
    Tech employee retention is a serious issue | Benjamin Yolken
  • I began to see myself as an explorer, excited to share what I found with others. I let more people in to see what I was working on because I was excited to share what I found rather than afraid of what they thought of what I knew.
    Here's to the fools who dream
  • People will impose their limiting beliefs onto your world because it’s what governs theirs. They will tell you to stay in something you want to leave, will tell you to keep pushing toward something that feels wrong, feels misaligned. You always have a choice. You can yield to expectation, pessimism, set structures, or [you can take the other path].
    Here's to the fools who dream
  • Who will teach me to write? a reader wanted to know. The page, the page, that eternal blankness, the blankness of eternity which you cover slowly, affirming time’s scrawl as a right and your daring as necessity; the page, which you cover woodenly, ruining it, but asserting your freedom and power to act, acknowledging that you ruin everything you touch but touching it nevertheless, because acting is better than being here in mere opacity; the page, which you cover slowly with the crabbed thread of your gut; the page in the purity of its possibilities; the page of your death, against which you p…
    Here's to the fools who dream
  • You might assume senior leaders and executives are “too trusted" to need to manage up. There's no such thing as too much trust. Every single leader has to manage up. Counterintuitively, senior leaders and executives are often best at it. They got to where they are because they know how to anticipate needs, communicate persuasively, and keep people in the loop.
    15 principles for managing up - Wes Kao's Newsletter
  • Know when to get out. None of this works for managers who don’t have your best interest in mind or are insecure about their own work. No amount of managing up can resolve deeply troublesome issues, so use your best judgment.
    15 principles for managing up - Wes Kao's Newsletter
  • When you consider the issue from their point of view, it helps you get their buy-in too.
    15 principles for managing up - Wes Kao's Newsletter
  • Keep in mind you have exposure to primary data and proximity to certain problems that your manager lacks because their scope is broader. You see what’s happening on the ground and you’re more able to notice patterns within your area of responsibility, and that’s valuable knowledge for your manager to see.
    15 principles for managing up - Wes Kao's Newsletter
  • Trust isn't binary. It's more multi-faceted than that. But one of the best ways to continually expand trust is to demonstrate consistent, reliable follow through and communication:
    15 principles for managing up - Wes Kao's Newsletter
  • Showing your thought process helps others understand your rationale, logic, and assumptions. The best part is even if they disagree, it gives something to push back on, which propels the process forward.
    15 principles for managing up - Wes Kao's Newsletter
  • A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this.
    The Project Gutenberg eBook of Essays, First Series, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Ideally, good employees in a tight market are rewarded with regular, market-aligned pay increases without requiring external interviews or threats to quit.
    Tech employee retention is a serious issue | Benjamin Yolken
  • Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work.
    Read Satya Nadella's letter to employees - CNET
  • Next, every one of us needs to do our best work, lead and help drive cultural change. We sometimes underestimate what we each can do to make things happen and overestimate what others need to do to move us forward. We must change this.
    Read Satya Nadella's letter to employees - CNET
  • starts with clarity of purpose and sense of mission that will lead us to imagine the impossible and deliver it
    Read Satya Nadella's letter to employees - CNET
  • A focus on personal wellness created an unintended side effect: a retreat from the public arena, and a shift in the distribution of power ever since.
    The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet | by Yancey Strickler | OneZero
  • These are all spaces where depressurized conversation is possible because of their non-indexed, non-optimized, and non-gamified environments. The cultures of those spaces have more in common with the physical world than the internet.
    The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet | by Yancey Strickler | OneZero
  • My stake is always, of course, in the unmentioned girl in the plaid silk dress. Remember what it was to be me: that is always the point.
    Joan Didion on Keeping a Notebook - Farnam Street
  • It is a good idea, then, to keep in touch, and I suppose that keeping in touch is what notebooks are all about. And we are all on our own when it comes to keeping those lines open to ourselves: your notebook will never help me, nor mine you.
    Joan Didion on Keeping a Notebook - Farnam Street
  • So if you want people to focus on doing the work that has the most impact, how do you make clear what kind of impact you’re talking about? Certainly you can explain to people what you mean by impact and also what you don’t mean. But the cues they will observe more closely are the things you celebrate and reward.
    Focus On Impact