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Dan LaMotte's avatar

I'm getting back to this. Early in my career, I ran headlong into just writing gobs of code and getting things done. Lots of waste. More recently, I got into a funk of trying to "do it right" and realized a significant amount of waste can be avoided with some upfront thought and tradeoffs. However, this has invaded all of my decision making and slowed myself (and probably others) down significantly. Now, I'm realizing there must be a balance. Trying to figure out where that is is probably a battle by itself. But this was a great article to reflect on this.

Maybe its those one-way door decisions (but with enough rationalization, do one-way door decisions really exist? </sarcasm>) only which deserve this amount of scrutiny. Identifying those quickly and efficiently becomes hard.

As always, great article.

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Astrid's avatar

Hey Jos. Het is een schijnbare tegenstelling dat de welbespraakte opziet tegen het spreken met. Dat gezegd hebbende: als interviewer gebruik ik mijn intuïtie heel vaak. Natuurlijk zijn er “trick” vragen maar belangrijker vind ik om te weten of iemand ook bij mij “past”; en dat kan ook een tegenpool zijn want die gaat mij scherp houden. Of vind jij intuïtie iets wat je beter niet kan gebruiken?

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Giorgio Zoppi's avatar

I try to use GTD in this my adventure in AI and a personal work diary at night to review the day, especially the interaction with the team and what i have done well or what i need to avoid. Open to any tip. Generally i see that things that are to be done in less of 2 minutes, better doing that soon than stacking them in the queue.

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Giorgio Zoppi's avatar

Open at any other tips becasue getting stuff done is the path of happy life.

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SLS's avatar

This is a great column. It mirrors my most recent interview experience. And why I try to focus on the non-technical aspects of some of my projects and work stories.

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