Recently, I walked through engineers in our team about how I take notes with Zettelkasten and P.A.R.A. note-taking methods. I also wanted to share here, without going into much detail, how I've been using both systems. Zettelkasten was born to build articles, books, or posts from the ground up. Whenever you come...
James Clear says, "You're more likely to unlock a big leap in performance by trying differently than by trying harder. You might be able to work 10% harder, but a different approach might work 10x better. Remain focused on the core problem, but explore a new line of attack. Persistence is not just about effort, but...
James Clear says, "You're more likely to unlock a big leap in performance by trying differently than by trying harder. You might be able to work 10% harder, but a different approach might work 10x better. Remain focused on the core problem, but explore a new line of attack. Persistence is not just about effort, but...
Mediations Newsletter is becoming a curated newsletter where I will share what I've been thinking about recently and a few things passing from my screens, eyes, and life. The style will be between James Clear's 3-2-1, Cassidoo's rendezvous, and FS.Blog's Brain Food, and the content will reflect the complexity of...
How much time and money do we spend in our lives to make everything convenient? We optimized our lives so much that we had a lot of time to do many things. Yet, we lost the joy in them. Does everything have to be convenient? Some things should be inconvenient. The beauty hides in inconvenience. Writing must be on...
The whole RFC process requires a blameless and trustful environment. If the organization operates with bad politics and secrecy, forget about RFCs. If an engineer doesn't trust others and doesn't believe people have good intentions, why would they seek feedback? Even if they did, would they accept feedback? I don't...
Organizations should influence people to write RFCs, and the guides to writing them should be simple, clear, and concise. If an RFC template has ten sections that have to be filled, it ceases to help. An RFC template should be flexible. It's there to guide people's thoughts. A template should not only make writing...
If you publish an RFC and announce it only once, you practically fail. If there is one thing I learned in organizational leadership, it's this: if you want something, you have to repeat it. If you want to collect feedback for an RFC, you have to remind people constantly that you're looking for feedback. Give people...
If everything is urgent, nothing is urgent. I see people share an RFC to collect feedback and tell the audience that they will close the RFC for comments in two days. If everything is urgent, how can people read an RFC while other urgent tasks are waiting for them? Of course, it depends on the RFC. If an RFC is...
Not every RFC has to be shared with the whole company. Push RFCs to related people but be open to random people commenting on them. Related Note(s): 32b: Communicating Organizational Changes; 43: The Role and Responsibility of Software Architect; Resourced: How and Why RFCs Fail; Reply via email | Reply via Mastodon...
As the business decision has already been made, the RFC authors can decide which piece of feedback they will accept and which ones they will reject. If a team writes an RFC, they don't have to agree or accept every change request, but they have to acknowledge every comment. They have the right to veto by giving a...
Similar to the business need we talked about above, the business decision has to be made before writing an RFC. RFC focuses on how, not what—deciding on what has to be done earlier. An RFC can't drive a business decision; however, it can bring out risks that were not considered before. Thus, it can urge people to...
