Have you ever watched a show with subtitles? I have a hard time watching “dubbed” over shows, because the words never line up with the video, and my brain can’t unsee it when it happens. Plus, when you hear the original voices and then the dubbed ones, your brain also goes – “those original voices are so much better than these other ones, I like them better”. But then, to understand what is being said,…
There it is, the truth, you will… always… miss… something. The goal is not to miss the big things, the things that matter most to you in life. It’s probably a combination of work and personal, as is the case with most everyone else. Missing a conference, missing a post, missing what someone else is doing. Doesn’t matter, you can’t see it all, and you need to stop trying to do. Zero in, focus on…
If you want to play at the level you want to be at, you’re going to have to show up the way they do. Know the work. Know the industry. Know the team. Know the deliverables. And if you don’t know all those things, then you’re going to have to get learning to get up to speed. If you don’t want to do that work, that’s fine; you’re not ready to play at that level…
You can sit all day in meetings, and work through the good, the bad, and the ugly, and keep doing that day after day after day. Or you can start and see what happens. I vote for starting.
The rules change, and they aren’t always fair. In which case, you have two options – complain and stay still, or accept, keep moving forward, and push your own change from within. Nothing is set in stone; everything you think is set in stone is not. The Internet changed that, and AI is changing it again. Rules change and evolve, don’t fight it, embrace it.