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Don’t worry about the closing. Worry about the challenging. If you’re always there, you’re always working, you’re always pushing, you’re never giving, you’re keeping going (like this sentence) – then you are doing the right thing. Always be Challenging.

When it comes to notifying your users of “what it is you want to notify them about”, the implementation and medium of the notification is just as important as the notification itself. Not going to read the logs or look at the dashboard?  No need to store it anywhere. Is an immediate response required?  Text Message or Slack alert might be the best. Is having the notification as good as seeing it?  Sounds like a…

Only you know the answer to what else you can do to solve a problem, to fix what’s wrong, to figure out what to work on next. The question of “What Else can you do?” isn’t for someone else to ask, it’s for you to ask of yourself. We do things as a team, but the ones that ask this question of themselves all the time, are the ones that emerge as the leaders.

Does it matter who found the answer? Or that the answer was found? Does it matter that it was the expert who found the answer or someone else who found a random post on the issue? What matters? Is the problem solved, and can everyone move on? Or is what matters that you found the answer? You can’t have both, one moves you forward, the other holds you back.

Or do you? If you don’t, then no, the answer is you don’t know the drill. If you do, then yes, you know the drill and it’s no longer a drill, it’s how you do things, how the team does, how everyone comes together, and how fun and work are had and accomplished at the same time. When you know the drill, you’re not thinking about the drill, you’re doing what you’re supposed to be…