Ivan Fetch @ivanfetch

I’m a tenacious, empathetic, blind, IT professional who likes playing music, laughing, sour/dark beer, and learning something new to make life even better. IvanFetch.com Digital nomad Joined January 2009

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Adam Grant @AdamMGrant

3 years ago

The antidote to passive-aggressiveness is not brutal honesty. Candor without care just makes you an asshole. Communicating well is being direct in your message and kind in your delivery. The goal isn't to sugarcoat the truth. It's to make it clear that you're trying to help.

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Clint Sharp @clintsharp

3 years ago

Man, these same people who were experts in pandemics also happen to be experts in banking. Makes me feel so small, since all I know is about enterprise software.

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Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom

3 years ago

Things I'd like to tell my 20-year-old self:

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Adam Grant @AdamMGrant

3 years ago

In toxic cultures, you have to burn out to earn a break. Time off is how you recover. In decent cultures, you take a break when you're low on gas. Time off is how you refuel. In healthy cultures, you're expected to take regular breaks. Time off is encouraged to sustain energy.

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Nick Selman 🪴 @nickselman

3 years ago

I need to say something about this job market. Big Tech is painting a picture of “downturn” to hide their overhiring and to create a scarcity mindset among candidates to drive down comp. In reality, the market for top talent has never been stronger. Don’t fall for it!

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Charity Majors @mipsytipsy

3 years ago

If there's any disparity, it should be in favor of your current employees (eg access to promotions and new role openings). You'll spend hundreds of thousands on recruiting, but not on raises to keep your current people up to date on salary bands? Okay then.

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Senior Oops Engineer @ReinH

3 years ago

But a manager's outcome is the outcomes of the system they manage, and what they do is create and sustain the context in which that system can achieve those outcomes. This is subtle, and doesn't always look like what most people expect managing to look like.

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Senior Oops Engineer @ReinH

3 years ago

The best managers don't look like they're doing much of anything because they've put in motion a system steers itself towards its desired outcomes without requiring their constant intervention. This is difficult to value in a context where individual performance must be measured.

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Don Vinh @DonaldVinh

3 years ago

If “everyone is tired of wearing masks” means we don’t wear masks, the government should also know that “everyone is tired of paying taxes”

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Rach Idowu @AdultingADHD @AdultingADHD

3 years ago

I burnout a lot because I think I’m never doing enough, when in fact I’m pushing myself to the limit

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Kieran Drew @ItsKieranDrew

3 years ago

Copywriting is THE most powerful digital skill. But you don’t need to spend $$$$s to ace it. That's why I’ve built 'Copywriting Crash Course' I guarantee it will 10x your copy. And it’s free for the next 36 hours. Just: · Follow · Retweet · Reply 'done' I’ll DM a link.

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Talia Ringer 💚 @TaliaRinger

3 years ago

I honestly feel like the two most important things I can teach students as a professor are that: 1. they deserve to be treated with respect by people in positions of power, and 2. when they are in positions of power, they should treat those they have power over with respect.

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Adam Jacob @adamhjk

3 years ago

Frequently I’ve seen slack threads explode for days at a time - which could’ve been handled with a conversation quickly and easily. That’s not a meeting. It’s a conversation.

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Adam Jacob @adamhjk

3 years ago

That brings me to two other things that I think lead to bad outcomes: slack completionists and false transparency. The first is the need to monitor slack constantly, or else risk not having a voice on something you care about. This is as bad as having a day full of meetings!

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Fairwinds @fairwindsops

3 years ago

Fairwinds has released its latest open source tool, GoNoGo, a spec that can be used to define and then discover if an add-on that was installed with Helm is safe to upgrade. Stevie Caldwell walks us through it here hubs.li/Q01jCG6z0

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Dan Jimenez @TheDanJimenez

3 years ago

Trust your intuitions and enable your teams to make Big Bets to build the future hero product or feature. This approach has both accelerated our pace of innovation and our success rate.

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Sam Dylan Finch @samdylanfinch

3 years ago

Apologies for the delay in responding to this email, I temporarily lost the ability to pretend that everything is okay and not a clusterfuck of disease, discontent, and disaster. Circling back to the Canva graphic,