Life
Navigating reorganization
"you can't change the past, but you might learn something from it."
Latest
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/or 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 seats
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. I
Design
When is design vapid and inconsequential?
Rage against vapid, inconsequential designs.
Promotion
10 tips on getting a promotion
If you attended my session on Developing a Career Strategy on ADP last Saturday, thank you. It was a great turnout. I learned a lot from the questions; they gave me ideas for iterating upon my content. A nice bonus was making new connections, even with people who couldn'
Career Growth
Tune into "Developing a Career Strategy" talk on April 8, 1 pm
I'm doing a 45 min talk on ADPList where I will share my experience developing a career strategy. This session is not about troubleshooting Jobs but an overview of how to frame impact effectively. I'm taking one of the posts I've written a few