lots of orgs in big tech have been becoming more flat - getting rid of some unproductive hierarchy
But hierarchy as a concept can be quite serving to organizations bc humans inherently have egos and IC's individuality can cost collaboration
Avoid a convo? Relationship debt
Skip a workout? Physical debt
Put off work? Professional debt
Every time you avoid what has to be done you create a future problem with interest
You don’t need to be perfect
But don’t lie to yourself - everything you delay eventually comes due.
For a quick moment, imagine you were born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.
When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet.
When you're 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts and five million perish.
At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict. Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening.
As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? A child in 1985 didn’t think their 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents survived through everything listed above.
Perspective is an amazing thing. With so much happening right now and as 2023 ends, let's try to keep things in perspective, knowing that we will get through all of this. In the history of the world, there has never been a storm that lasted forever. This too shall pass.
ok im so curious, fellow canadians - how much do you care about politics in canada?
i lived in korea half of my life and politics is very often talked about in a casual manner but i hardly have meaningful conversations around it with friends
but obviously politics matters a lot bc we live in a system with rules
so how much do you care about it vs how often to you get to have productive conversations w ppl?
@adele_bloch I totally agree - I went 10 months without salary and it amplified the significance of different types of savings, investment types & also just the state of the economy we are in at our age too!
hihi! i've been away focusing on my new job and adjusting to a new schedule. how are u all?!
happy belated new year! i can't wait for us to do amazing things this year!! ✨🩵💫
putting my heart on a plate and lighting a candle for the table: a piece on friendships, creative playmates, and a confession of love
https://t.co/GfTkiRKgbb
after two decades of trying to get better at “leadership”, this is what i’ve got:
leadership is about having extremely high expectations, deeply believing in people’s ability to grow to meet those expectations, and having the responsibility to support people in that growth.
On January 1, 2014, I wrote a letter to my future self just before graduating.
Today, 10 years later, I opened it.
This hit me hard.
Everyone should do this.