Paul Wood III

Mobile Engineering Manager at Comcast. Modeling Inclusivity through using the word Ya'll. Opinions are my own, and mostly about podcasts.

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I’m a manager now, which means I miss coding in C. Sometimes I’d trade a meeting invite for manually tracking heap allocations. But flip side is I make more impactful decisions in those meetings than deciding on memory allocations. This is the struggle of interest vs role.

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@_bartjacobs In my context best possible outcome is their résumé was proofed by their vendor incorrectly, Or they are hoping to start a critical snark-fest of a slack thread with the other iOS engineers

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@ceeoreo_ Great Question I don’t know, but my wife has been setting up a Cookbook Club over the last month and she just makes a point to talk about it to all her friends and acquaintances to see if they’d opt into talking about it at all and then invites them based on their interest. FWIW

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A notebook or journal focused purely on your career development is a useful tool for many of the less glamorous requirements of career development rituals like self assessments, 360 feedbacks, and end of year reviews.

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The act of handwriting has many values. Consider it for your 1:1s as a manager and as a direct report. The slower hand on paper is great to retain information but also allow both parties time to gather their thoughts and respond with intention instead of reaction.

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@Dimillian You know now that I manage remotely, Inappropriate touching might be one less thing HR assigns me in their catch all mandatory integrity training next year.

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Be prepared for more on hand writing things tomorrow!

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Treating your 1:1s as ‘requirements gathering sessions’. Just as we structure technical meetings with tools like Jira, reminders, and technical documentation, imagine applying a similar mindset to 1:1s. Be Prepared! Have an Agenda! Make some tooling for yourself.

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Seek clarity on role expectations. If you’re eyeing a role change, work with your manager to document precisely what needs to happen to get there. This process take awhile, but having it in writing pays dividends during reviews and ensures alignment between you and your manager.

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Here's a proposal: Engineers start viewing your 1:1s with your manager as 'requirements gathering sessions' for your career trajectory. Reframe, realign, and gather feedback on your career development.✨#CareerGrowthStrategy

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Starting this week, I'll delve into the world of 1:1s – arguably the most transformative space for engineers and new managers. But first, let's identify the problem: why are 1:1s often misunderstood? 🤔 #EngineeringManagement

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As an engineer, I believed my most valuable time was spent solving technical issues. But as a manager, meetings became my stage for effecting change. This dichotomy often shapes our perceptions of 1:1s. #ManagementTransition

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I’m going to make a shift back to Twitter (X now?) And write about what I’ve learned going from Senior engineer to Engineering Manager. If you followed me for Swift in the past I hope you like the shift. I’ve been quietly building up a lot to say. I hope to post daily

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Making my daughter a bed today. Fell in love with maple again, such a pretty wood and soooo smooth to plane.

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@VishalMalvi_ SwiftUI. Easier to convey your point quickly and therefor better to pass a technical interview with now. Get your reps in for bettering your work during your day job I say.

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@BatsouElef Backtracking. 😤

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Reinstalled Twitter just now. Whew it’s different!

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@PaolaNotPaolo 100 times this! As the ”technical lead” and manager of a team, it’s hard to say what I did yesterday without quickly looking at the three dozen slack conversations I had to realize where my time went. Summarizing them is often a waste of time