I’ve been fixing a deck over the last few weekends (I’ve done this a few times), and it always makes me appreciate how all the little pieces can make the greater whole that much stronger bit by bit. Taped joists. Painting End cuts Using the right screws where (and brackets) Knowing how to double-up joists. Adjusting a few degrees for a nice drainage slant. All these things, not necessarily required, you’ll still get a deck…
Checklists are great, I use them infinitely all over the place. But where they fail (and fail me) is the reorganization of said lists based on priority changes, based on workload changes, based on what I’m doing changes. This is where AI could do something useful to help out – reorganize a checklist against what I already have going on in my life. Adjust, refine, redistribute – until then, I’ll keep doing it myself.
This is funny, this is also for real. The part that gets me is the people applauding the basic achievement. https://youtu.be/TXnAij7ozb0 Let this be the standard for what you don’t want your meetings to be.
Ask. And mean it, “Tell me what you think, is it garbage? Is it good? Is it a mess? Does it do what you want it to do?” We use to invite users to come to our offices to try out new versions of our products. Users, in our offices. No remote or virtual calls, in-person connections where we saw their faces scrunch up at a horribly implemented feature. And then we’d go out to…
It’s the little bugs that hold you back, not the big ones. The big ones, everyone jumps onto, everyone knows what they are about, it’s crystal clear what the problem is and how to solve it. But the little bugs, those are the blisters on your software, that prick you when you turn the wrong way, that itch, that irritate, you have no idea how they got there or what happened – but they are…