🔖 Your Small Imprecise Ask Is a Big Waste of Their Time
Being better about asking for the right thing to the right person at the right time
Being better about asking for the right thing to the right person at the right time
At the risk of it including a line like "Being a massive sook arsehole is a-ok."
Am I a thief? No, it’s ethics that is wrong.
How do other people stop their brain yelling at them all the time?
As someone who struggles with focus control this would a really valuable thing to do. Parking things but having a record of them being parked, rather than forgetting until the next time, would alleviate stress and also make me more effective in the moment.
It is the slowing down, not reacting, and writing it down that I also struggle with though.
Employer had a bunch of old Apple equipment around that we can’t really hand to new employees any longer, even if we were hiring. So I arranged with the org to just give it to any employees that wanted it. No charge, just take it away so I don’t need to pack it up in a fortnight when we move offices. Took names and then handed it out.
Unfortunately we didn’t have any chargers to give with the laptops nor keyboards/mice to give with the desktops. Bemused at how multiple people managed to make it seem like I was ripping them off 🥴
Another look at the intercontinental cable laying industry, 28 years after Neal Stephenson's Mother Earth Motherboard
Neal Stephenson's epic article from 1996 on the trans-continental cable laying industry.