I think I replace more cords over the course of a year then anything else. I can buy them anywhere but sometimes they aren’t “the good ones”, and they don’t last as long. The fall apart easily and stop charging after a few months. Why? No one knows, it’s like the lost sock in your dryer, they just go away, never to be heard from again. And then you forget the right the adapter, or…
Weather Events happen. Work Events happen. Family Events happen. All types of events that are outside of your control happen and can shift your day on a dime, changing everything you thought your day was going to be about into something else. You can rail against it all, or figure out a way to roll with it. You can’t change a downpour all day when you have planned a picnic (but you can have the…
The Last Test is the one that will determine your future. It’s not the last test, because now you have to take another one. And that won’t be the last one either. There is never a last test, only the next test. And after the Next Test, you want to push for there to be another one, because that’s how you keep moving forward.
A random message goes out on Teams – “Who can help me with this?” Crickets. No one can. Or everyone can. But no one knows who owns it, so no one knows whether they should work on it. So no one puts their hand up. The subject line of the follow-up meeting is “Do I own this?” If the answer is yes, great, if the answer is no, great. But now we all know.
I think one of the downfalls of remote work is that we don’t always feel like we are being heard enough. The “Hand Raise” icons aren’t enough. And our immediate response is then to speak over each other, continually over and over again. As a result, the usefulness of our meetings declines because there is no more direction toward solving an issue, we only want to hear ourselves being heard. The question then becomes how…