Yesterday my teams and I tried something new. We had never done it before. We didn’t know if it would be worth doing. So why did we do it? Because we are willing to be wrong along the way in our pursuit to ultimately be more right!
One of our more sobering discussions at the weekend’s unConference happened over dinner on Saturday evening. We talked about the idea of managers letting people go.
I had one of those short but interesting “water cooler” conversations with two colleagues yesterday (Ridwaan Kharva, Bradley King). They mentioned how they’d been reading my recent LinkedIn posts and asked where I found the time to write them.
Everyone who has attended a traditional conference knows that your degree of engagement varies wildly from session to session. And let’s be honest, engagement is a strong word, many times you feel like a number and are actually just barely able to stay awake.
I’m attending Unconference 2019 with my friend Wynand Rabe this weekend. It’s been an incredibly eye opening experience so far. Lots of interesting topics today.
This morning I woke up and could barely walk. The reason? I‘d done some intense strength training a few days ago, and was experiencing something called Delayed Onset of Muscle Soreness.
Why? Because It exposes your work to the real world. Because going live is risky. What if people don’t like it? What if something doesn’t work? What about the unknown unknowns?
It’s 6am and I’m staring at a diary packed full of meetings. Add to that the dozens of Slack channels, hundreds of unread emails and never ending notifications from our phones.
