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Following up on my previous post On Fear , I was reflecting on the possibility that: bad reports will ignore your fears and only focus on the goals. As a result your satisfaction will be low good reports will only pick up on the fears that are explicitly stated as a goal. As a result your satisfaction will be OK-ish, but at great expense great reports will understand your fears before you even state them or without needing to go into the details. As a result your satisfaction will be at its greatest potential, allowing full delegation and growth for both

Photo by Daniele Levis Pelusi on Unsplash This week I joined a Risk Storming workshop led by Beren Van Daele . Disclaimer: my attendance was spotty due to overlapping events, but I think I got a passing understanding.   One aspect of the workshop stirred my attention, and it was the mention of fears in the context of goals vs fears. Obviously anyone wants to achieve certain goals, so it makes sense to set goals and to mention them in a workshop like this. However when setting goals there are certain second-order effects or side-effects that we want to avoid, minimise or eliminate entirely. Here are a few reasons why I found intriguing (and valuable!) the explicit mention of fear. Acknowledge fears when planning Acknowledging fears and taking them into account into planning is a desirable trait in any wise person who seeks...

Agency, skill, and mastery are topics on which I have so many thoughts, and I am still discovering myself. This writing summarizes my position as of roughly April 2024. Agency, as pictured below, is to take on things, doing hard things without waiting for conditions to be perfect or otherwise blaming others or your circumstances. Examples of low agency: I could develop so much faster if only the code was not so crappy!  We would be already finished if this or that team had done their job properly!  If only my boss (or company) understood me, I could really do great things for this Company or my team! High agency behavior:  I'll try to make changes to the code/add tests/etc as I work on parts of it so that I will, over time, be faster. Let's see if there are ways that I...

Once again I am writing about a few things I learned from the Knowledge Project podcast. In this episode Sean Parrish (host) and Dr. Gio Valiante talk about getting out of the fear of failure . I found the discussion supremely valuable and decided to draw a small diagram to make sure I assimilated and retained the essential points. The diagram is below and is provided without further comments, as those are, well, in the podcast itself. Diagram from "The Knowledge Project Ep. #181"