Burnout
Sunday scaries to quit your job
👻 Sunday scaries is a slang describing the anxiety of starting the next workweek. The best time of the week to think about quitting or quiet quitting.
Influence
What is influence?
Six pillars of influence and what it means.
Leadership
Design thought leadership
Everybody gets to choose their version of a hard choice.
Life
Navigating corporate reorganization
"you can't change the past, but you might learn something from it."
Writing
Learnings from writing a newsletter for 6 months
What it's like writing for 6 months...
Frameworks & Mental Model
Time management start with "NO"
Say No more often.
Vision
How to get buy-in on your ideas?
Keep an idea humble, succinct, and outcome oriented.
Leadership
The challenges of leading change
What does it mean to be a leader?
Career Growth
Junior vs Senior Level
"I just want to design"....
Life
Summer ‘23 musings config, authenticity, and kardashians
How is your Sunday? From my last update in June, I had an intense month of May and decided to take a break from posting weekly. I'm happy I slowed things down. I went to physical therapy and found out I have a frozen shoulder! 🥶 I have a
Communication
How to build a muscle to disagree and commit
Thank you for your patience while I took a 1-month hiatus from posting weekly. It wasn't planned at all, the last 4 weeks have been an overload and I didn't have the mental/physical capacity to write on my downtime. Highlights: 1. Got Club Suite
Burnout
Presenting 12 page paper to engineering leaders
This past week, I had the biggest personal win in the last 2 years at Amazon. I presented a 12-page proposal to 7 directors proposing to shift the organization from Engineering to UX/Product. Given the leadership team are SDMs, it's a long shot at the moon.