Things I read about today – 06/10/2020

Advice

The second you became their manager you forfeited the right to joke around in any capacity about their employment at the company. Even though you still feel like a pal joking around, even though the fact that you’d make the joke at all is a testament to your discomfort with having to make firing decisions, it’s not something you can ever joke about. People don’t find it funny because it’s not funny.

Source: Advice to New Managers: Don't Joke About Firing People · Stay SaaSy by

  • Being bad at process is one of the easiest ways to lose credibility and good talent.
  • YOU are in charge of a process being followed. If your process isn’t being followed fully or it’s causing disruption, frustration, or resentment, that is YOUR fault. Fix it.
  • Great processes have automatic triggers, clear actions, and effective review.

Source: Creating Good Process · Stay SaaSy by

Health/ Lifestyle

waking up early really gives you two main benefits: 1) it lets you have more time to prepare your mind and body for work 2) it lets you live part of your day outside the shadow of work. I recommend it to anyone that’ll listen.

Source: My Superpower: Waking Up Early · Stay SaaSy by

Product Design

In practice this seems to happen quite often. Some would say every time. To understand why, we need to remember Jussi's law of programmers:

The problem with programmers is that if you give them the chance, they will start programming.

Source: Short term usability is not the same as long term usability by