Tag: Business
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You Are Building a Case Study
“You are building a case study here.” My boss told me this early in my time at GitLab. I’ve turned it over many times since. On the surface it sounds like encouragement. Look closer and it’s a warning. We didn’t hire you to run the playbook you ran somewhere else. We hired you because you…
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Storytelling
I find the art of storytelling fascinating. That you can spellbound people with a narrative is fascinating to me. But, also, someone can write a story so bad not only does it not make sense, the sentences run long (like this one), seem fragmented, disjointed, meandering, and poorly constructed that you simply want to drop…
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Lots of Time Spent Pruning
I feel like this winter there’s been a lot of pruning that’s been happening. I hope that means this summer much fruit will come. It would feel like a waste if I didn’t see much fruit from all the piercing and slicing pruning. Yet I’ve wrestled with this question for the past four weeks: is…
Jeff Beaumont 