Adam Probolsky

Market & Opinion Research | Senior Advisor to startups and professional services firms $2-$20M | Sé curioso y ten compasión

[Adam Probolsky @AdamProbolsky]

Crazy story...

A few years ago I read The Room Where It Happened by John Bolton. He is smart and has vast knowledge. And was extremely curious about how he was able to recall all of the details that went into the book.

I even found the contact information for his assistant and sent a letter asking if he would share how he journals or keeps notes. I never got a response.

Now we know how he did it.

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I’m conflicted staying this out loud, but @MazdaUSA’s current lineup of vehicles have some really good styling.

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Focus group tonight en Español

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@Harmony_Holiday That is not true. Disneyland is safe. This is a terrible situation, but it’s not helpful to say this kind of thing.

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Where is the statement from a high up Googler acknowledging how awful this is and now they have new systems in place to ensure it can never happen again?

[Railway @Railway]

Google Cloud has blocked our account, making some Railway services unavailable. We have escalated this directly with Google. The Railway Platform team has since confirmed access to Google Cloud and is working on restoring access to all workloads.

We have access to some of our Google Cloud–hosted infrastructure and are working to restore the rest of the service. We apologize for the disruption.

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This is an American who thinks she should be leading something other than a peer group of the criminally insane.

[Michael Karlis @MichaelKarlis]

TX-35 Democratic candidate Maureen Galindo says she will convert ICE detention center in Karnes County into an internment camp for "American Zionists."

"It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists," she added.

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We've all seen, read about, implemented, and failed at a hundred productivity techniques.

This is not about that.

But no matter what business you are in, getting things right is paramount. And it turns out that the simplest way to do that is a checklist.

That SOP you've been meaning to update (or build in the first place) is not important.

Just. Make. A. List.

Pick one consequential thing that your organization does on some regular basis. It can be how to properly format the cover sheet to your TPS reports or when to close the blast doors in the event of impending global thermonuclear war. Just pick one thing and write out the steps.

This. Is. Not. A. Process.

Think of this more like the radio traffic between astronauts and ground control leading up to a launch.

Ground Control: “Safety check: cockpit hatch latch status.”

Shuttle 2: “Hatch latch secure.”

Ground Control: “Suit integrity check, pilot. Report pressure.”

Shuttle 2: “Pilot suit nominal pressure.”

Ground Control: “Suit integrity check, mission specialist.”

Shuttle 2: “Mission specialist suit nominal.”

Ground Control: “Cabin pressure check.”

Shuttle 2: “Cabin pressure steady.”

These are the things that if they got them wrong, things would be very very bad. No one is asking if they took their vitamins this morning.

Dr. Atul Gawande is a surgeon who wrote *The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right*. It is an easy two-day read that will open your eyes to extreme efficacy of a checklist for the most critical tasks. He details checklist use in the cockpit, operating room, and skyscraper construction. You don't need to read the book, but you should. It gives you all the perspective you need to 1- get motivated and start, and 2- have the context to be able to explain the importance to others (a key to effective leadership).

If you choose to read the book, you will get a few laughs. He also finds a way to make surgery feel relatable.

There is Science Behind the Idea

Some people take offense to the idea that their job can be boiled down to a checklist. This does not suggest that people are mindless robots. It actually frees up your cognitive load so you can focus on the creative and the problem-solving.

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@georgeandrews Luke warm

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It would be more funny if it wasn't so annoying. But Microsoft is very good at making themselves less and less relevant to business.

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[California Special Districts Association @CSDAdistricts]

75% of California voters support expanding CARB #ZEV exemptions to include all vehicles expected to respond in emergency situations — not just fire trucks, ambulances, and police cars.

Public comment period ends TOMORROW.

Ask #CARB for local flexibility: https://t.co/fcay0iXz0l

🎥 @AdamProbolsky, President, @ProbolskyRsrch

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@Jicecream Irish Spring

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***Autism families (and supporters)***

There is a great opportunity help our kids get a voice through spelling. If you live in New York, please contact Senator Fahy and tell her to remove her amendments to S7792C (return to S7792C language).

Details on this site my wife and created:
https://t.co/L4AN9H09Md

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Forget job loss and financial markets disruption, I am most worried that a bunch of these are primarily for people to use as a substitute for people to people relationships.

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The Big Reveal is Dead

Unless you are Apple, you don't get to wait for an event or webinar three weeks from now. Just push the update and tell the world what you've got.

We don't have the patience for it anymore. And things are moving so fast, the next thing could be hours or days away.

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Now more than ever @levie you need to allow us to create Google Docs, etc with full public permissions, no login. Otherwise we have to leave the @Box ecosystem to take advantage of @GeminiApp

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

New Gemini updates to make @GoogleWorkspace more personal, helpful and collaborative: choose your sources and create a Doc draft in seconds, build complex Sheets 9X faster, or generate on-brand Slide layouts with a simple prompt. Plus, Drive now generates summarized answers right at the top of your search results so no more digging through folders.

Rolling out today in beta, available first to Ultra + Pro subscribers in English globally for Docs, Sheets and Slides, and in the US for Drive.

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[Dimitri Dadiomov @dadiomov]

At this point the entire Iranian leadership is just three Mossad agents who don’t know about each other, so they keep on playing the game.

(Joke from Israel just now)

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