General @generallbas

hold space Joined May 2023

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Niyi @theniyifagbemi

4 months ago

Benin Republic’s Vodoo Festival 🇧🇯 Shot by Me.

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@fahdananta Agreed, and the use of programming to explain it makes it very clear. This is something that sounds like common knowledge but isn’t. You have to keep up the momentum - slow is smooth & smooth is fast.

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General @generallbas

7 months ago

Being a business leader is knowing that you need to be thinking 24 - 36 months ahead (minimum). That’s how you know you’re spending enough time in decision making gatherings and conversations.

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General @generallbas

8 months ago

Do you know what managing a team of 60 IC’s would teach you? I do. It’s patience. One of the most important skills in management is communication.

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General @generallbas

8 months ago

Email etiquette is knowing that when responding to an email you shouldn’t be including stakeholders that have no context of the conversation. Copying the manager of the sender to your response is basically an escalation. Don’t escalate if the initial email was an FYI notice.

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General @generallbas

8 months ago

This current AWS outage is a reminder of how dangerous monopolies/dependencies can be. Risk mitigation is making sure you give yourself and your services options.

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Hurley @Johnsjawn

8 months ago

On vacation in a tiny island town, the hotel staff saw the Notion logo on my laptop. “What’s that?” one asked. Her colleague jumped in: “That’s Notion. I love Notion.” We ended up spending 20 minutes demoing Notion AI. I had them describe what they hoped Notion could do while recording with AI Meeting Notes, then asked the Notion Agent to write a prompt from the transcript and build their use case. He had to take a walk outside to process what he’d just seen. A few days later, she’d onboarded her friends and started a WhatsApp group to share tips. We hugged, snapped a photo, followed each other on IG, and they gave us some olive oil as a gift :) Find yourself a product people around the world love.

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General @generallbas

8 months ago

Sales Driven Development: This happens when your roadmap is influenced by a request from a new customer, it’s not necessarily bad, there’s a balance.

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General @generallbas

9 months ago

Working in operations x hardware has showed me how true this statement is, but then again, you need to go through it to understand it. Some positions are hard work and nothing short of it. You plan for the outliers and ensure your processes are bulletproof.

Marc Randolph @marcrandolph

9 months ago

You simply can’t know how things are going to behave until you’ve actually tried them. Go ahead and write up a plan, but don’t put too much faith in it. The only real way to find something out is to do it.

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General @generallbas

9 months ago

@akintollgate This is hard work.

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General @generallbas

9 months ago

Remember to carry out retrospectives to check on your processes and outputs. What worked & why, and what didn’t.

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General @generallbas

9 months ago

Working in operations means you’re deliberately signing up for a world of uncertain challenges. No 2 days are the same but you 100% choose how you react to what’s thrown at you.

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ODI @OdiOnuigbo

10 months ago

The gods can not do for men what they can do for themselves - King Agamemnon

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General @generallbas

11 months ago

it's a skill that comes from practice and experience. first, you monitor everything and then look for patterns - if there's a pattern, follow the pattern and stay flexible

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General @generallbas

11 months ago

execution is one thing. communicating what has been executed & forecasting the future based on resources, etc. - this is where your superpower comes in.

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General @generallbas

a year ago

Agreed

Garry Tan @garrytan

a year ago

“This is the way we always did it” is the most dangerous operating attitude for all companies in a moment when literally everything is changing.

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General @generallbas

a year ago

The Rookie series taught me that it’s good practice to decompress your mind after a busy/long day - me, decompressing mine with 90+ other online players

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General @generallbas

a year ago

Haha, no lies found. When I speak to people in other disciplines, the first thing I do is admit I know nothing about what they do, then I just sit and learn.

vartika @vartikaajn

a year ago

Every person who works in tech needs least 5 non tech friends to interact with closely on a weekly basis so they can understand how the general public actually thinks

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General @generallbas

a year ago

people who do the work don't do too much on their portfolio or resumes and this is coming from reviewing thousands of resumes - after a while, you look at a resume and you can almost tell if they did the work or not. presenting in an actual interview is a different game

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General @generallbas

a year ago

Yes. Honestly, there’s no escaping it, so in the famous words of my HR - ‘be kind to yourself’ It’s a rat race but it’s the required sacrifice for exponential career growth, there are no shortcuts, it’s hard work that eventually turns to smart work.