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The Highest-Leverage Activities Aren’t Always Deep Work 4 minutes read.
"Believing that success rests solely on your technical laurels limits your career growth. Your ability to create meaningful impact in your job relies on other, less deep work as well." -- learning how to communicate and influence others in the organization requires a lot of time investment in areas that many individual contributors feel uncomfortable.
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Cognitive Biases in Engineering Organizations (Video) 30 minutes read.
Jonathan Klein (Etsy) with powerful cognitive biases we should be aware of when building software, and how to deal with them. Learning about our cognitive biases is a great way to at least create self-awareness, so when a situation occurs we can pull ourselves out of the "automatic response" and give it some extra thought. We should be able to say more often "I feel I'm reacting to the situation, and I'd like to think about it for a few more hours before making my final decision."
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The Psychological Benefits of Writing Regularly 4 minutes read.
I believe that people who strive to improve their leadership skills should try and write daily, practicing their ability to communicate ideas and how they build the story around it. This one is golden: "In both emotional intelligence and in hard sciences like mathematics, writing has been shown to help people communicate highly complex ideas more effectively. Writing helps eliminate "it sounded good in my head" by forcing your hand; brains forgive fuzzy abstractions, prose does not."
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