Just curious what other types of 'gravities' exist in organizations? In a negative gravity example, something I've seen as a social contagion is when some people start resigning it tends to spread and then the organization slowly decays (or quiets quits)
I try to work through a few of these in the book. For example, the "social contagion" theory of layoffs from Stanford Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer. Also, in my previous book and this one, I draw on a concept I call "career equity," which has to do with the fact that people's perception of what will get them ahead in an organizational hierarchy is, in very many ways, more real to them and more valuable to them than any kind of bonus incentive or financial equity you offer them.
More importantly, my goal in the book is to teach the reader how to see these deeper underlying forces that operate below the surface of most organizations. Once you see and identify them, you can learn how to wield them.
For first drafts, I always write it by hand first, then later I'll ask AI for some feedback and thoughts. I find that the AI training data is based on really boring structured writing where it has to be
1. Introduction
2. Transition sentences
3. Middle paragraphs
4. Clean conclusions
which I find doesn't vibe with my style of writing where I tend to meander quite a bit then try to wrap things up back in a different manner
In Orange County, CA there is another variant of pho ga kho, which literally translates to dried chicken pho. The rice noodles and chicken are stir fried, and served with a side of pho ga broth, and a sweet soy sauce.
Pho Dakao, 16171 Brookhurst St, Fountain Valley, CA 92708, United States
Also I got a recipe for pho ga from my aunt which is:
* 6 chicken legs, and 2 bone in breasts (or debone a whole chicken)
* Bring a pot of water to boil
* Parboil all pieces for 2 minutes, throw away the broth
* Char onion and ginger (in an air fryer or on a gas stove - air fryer is
easier)
* Toast coriander seeds and star anise
* Add all ingredients back, bring to boil, then drop to a low simmer, and salt
* After 30 minutes remove the pieces, let it cool and debone
* Add the chicken bones back, cook for additional 30 minutes, season with salt and msg
* Optionally serve with a side of nuoc cham, but this variation has no fish sauce in the stock
How well this turns out depends on the quality of the chicken you buy. At the Asian markets, there are different breeds of chicken which have less meat, but are more flavorful.
Sorry, I kind of have a dumb question here. So we have a bunch of legacy selenium scripts that do end to end user testing, and occasion they break (either because of a network error, or devs committed something that breaks a test).
We were looking at seeing if a model could look at the screenshot of the failure, some of the original website source code, and try to fix the failing test.
My question is with vibium, would it make more sense to port the legacy tests over to vibium, and if a test fail, use its capabilities to try to self-heal?
i apologize, but i'll answer your question with a metaphor.
i want to build an island resort and a bridge from the mainland to get there. do i build the island resort first or the bridge first?
here's my thinking: if the resort is popular and a fun place to be, there will be a huge incentive to build the bridge next. but we might also find out that building the bridge will ultimately be economically impractical and we should just stick to using ferry boats. at least we'll have a cool island resort to go to, though!
so for now, i'm just focusing on building the island resort at the moment. but i really, really want to build that bridge, too, asap.
1. Staff updates their personal journal by Friday before our 1:1
2. Staff takes a one time skill assessment of all the tech dimensions we use on a likert skill so I know what they are strong and weak at (like might be weak in batch processing, containers, etc).
3. Staff periodically updates their career journey which has
-Start Date
-Elapsed Time
-What were your expectations in the elapsed time you were here?
-Review of skills matrix and what you want improved
-Current Role
-Desired Next Role
-Projects worked on in this year
-What skill sets did I learn in this years projects?
-Certifications
-Next year I want to accomplish
-In 5 years I want to accomplish
[ these are all the artifacts I use as a reference point ofr myself]
-- then during the 1:1 I ask
1. 'how are you?'
--> And then I listen to see how their response is. Are they sighing a lot, are they stressed are they bored. I then follow up to make sure everything is okay emotionally or they have issues. I have noticed a lot of employees are not honest in what they say
2. I then assess how they are doing in terms of their
- project delivery
- tech skills
- soft skills
and get feedback accordingly.
Most engineers I have are doing well on projects and tech skills, but often need work on soft skills. I ask them to focus on soft skills by thinking of
- communication
- writing
- reading
For those who need help in communication I advise them to attend a Toastmasters class in person. Also I have been advocating for staff to read 'Supercommunicators' as a way to think about communication as a framework.
For soft skills, I believe the way of improving is being well rounded in the humanities, and not just going hard core tech.
Initially I sent out Mailchimp newsletters to my closest friends, but found the interface a bit clunky, so instead switched to Wordpress. What I do is write specifically for the audience of my friends, send them the newsletter, and post it on the Internet.
What I found kind of interesting, is when I would see some of my friends months later, they would cite something they found interesting from the blog. Occasionally, I peek at the metrics, and it is in the low single digits, but I'm okay with that as long as my friends have seen it.
My guess is with the inundation of shallow knowledge and posts people resonate with deeper writing.
Oddly enough, the most beneficial thing I have is my Twitter account, because I can often DM airlines or companies support (like fedex support) for quicker responses.
