Sun, 28 May 2023
Join Seth Godin as we are talking about boardgames and how we can help kids, including that kid we all have inside us, by helping others level up in ways they want to repeat. I really recommend you check out his newest book The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams
Ric Seth Ric Seth I only paused for three seconds, maybe two, but it was still uncomfortable. That's a form of tension. It's not a physical thing. It's a way that we want completion to occur. We're wondering what's going to happen next. Industrialism has pushed us to want to relieve tension, and just get the memo done, meeting over with, the quarterly numbers in. But in fact, creativity always involves tension. Ric Why aren't they paying attention to what matters? Whenever you talk about games, like Cosmic Encounter (a boardgame), or how you learn things from video games - its so good to hear. When did you start playing board games? Because you do talk about that every now and then Seth I think it's very important to establish early on two things. One, like music, there's taste in board games. Just because you don't like some board games doesn't mean you don't like all board games. And number two, what goes to that is, forgive me, but there's good board games, and there's bad board games. And there are a lot of bad board games. You know, I grew up with Monopoly. Monopoly a bad board game. And there are a lot of ways that I explain why it's bad. Chutes and Ladders is a bad board game where you're just rolling dice and using luck to magnify it all the way around. On the other hand, Rock Paper Scissors RoShamBo is an excellent game. The rules are super simple, you can play it at many levels of depth, etc. I was a game designer in the early 1980s. I pride myself on doing game design still to this day. Not always on a board, not always with dice. Sometimes in the way of businesses designed, it's still a game. And for me, games are a set of rules. A way for individuals to bring intent to the table to see how their intent interacts with other people's intent when exposed to the rules. Business is at its best when rules are clear and are about serving your constituents. But the play is not clear. Which is why we do business now totally differently than we did 20 years ago. Because people get better at playing the game. Ric Do you want to segway over to that? Seth My book, The Song of significance takes us to a different level and says: look at work, we're here to make a change happen. If you just want an industrial job, where you take something from this box and put it in that box, go work over there. That's not what we do here. What we do here is we make a change happen. And there are a bunch of mutual commitments we need to make about how we will play that game with each other for each other, to get to where we're going. And what's happened at work, is we've enabled industrialism to creep in, and we pretend that's what we're doing. But what we're really doing is ordering people to do what we want. And I think we need to talk about it. Ric It goes back to board games. If you can realize that some people at this table want to play Monopoly, but you don't. The earlier you can have that conversation, the better off you all are. I'm always, as a grown up who is often in conversations with kids asking myself - What am I teaching whom right now here? For example, what happens when we remove the dice from the game, suddenly, it's a very different game, and different skill sets being taught that is still play that are also very beneficial when we're talking to people reading people, understanding people, but also, everyone needs to have fun. So if we're forcing someone to play a game that they find too complicated, or too scary, or whatever, they're not going to come back next time we invite them to play. Right? This is exactly the same for work outcomes. Seth That part of the mindset of capitalism is you got to work or you're going to starve to death. So there's not an invitation there. Part of the mindset of compulsory education is you got to go to school, or your parents go to jail. So those are not enrolled activities. Great work, great learning comes where people are enrolled in the journey. We have to figure out how to create the conditions for people to decide that that's what they want. Ric But it wasn't my story. I was just giving them a direction and creating a collaborate space for them and thus they turned it into their story. And support for the work, we do emotional work we need to do Seth The people who seem to get the most out of our lives are the ones who are the authors of that journey, as opposed to simply characters in it. Ric Do you want to share some thoughts on that? Seth Ric Seth Ric We're also living in a very fast-moving world. Something that piqued my interest that you talked about just now is learning from the edges, being willing to go to the edges, and learn and then teach others. Seth Because I have no doubt that it is vitally important that the people in the water department at my town get fresh, clean water to my house. But that's a Six Sigma problem. And the only way to succeed is to make it a little tiny bit cheaper than you did yesterday. And that work needs to be done. I am not minimizing it. We can't live without it. But it doesn't have to be done by you. The problem with industrial work, where the only way to win is to be a little faster and a little cheaper, is you spend your day running on a treadmill. It's hard to feel truly significant. When you're not making change happen when you're not feeling like you're on the hook. It's harder to be respected is harder to find the thrill of looking forward to tomorrow. As we enter this post-industrial age what we're hearing from people who have enough to eat who have a roof over their head is that what they miss in their life is significance is knowing that they did something that they alone could contribute to. The only place to find that work is on the edges. Now they don't have to be the giant edges of launching a mission to Jupiter, it could be the edge of here's this patient, she just found out she has high blood pressure, she has never had this problem before. In the next five minutes, the tone of her future is going to be set. What is that interaction like? If you're just going to read it from a card, you're probably not showing up as a human. But if you can see the pain in that person's eyes, and you can figure out how to offer that person solace. Well, then you've done something significant. Ric Seth Ric Seth Ric Seth Ric Seth Ric We do have something for our computer game players. There it's a lot easier because there you have it on STEAM that you can buy something as an early developer or a complete game and then you can refund it. So there it's starting to move, it's easy to try things early on the edges. And you Seth for example, with Carbon Almanac - you have a board game there. And you have the PDFs on line, so you can taste it, chew a bit, and then I want more, or you can say no, not me, not right now. Seth Ric But again, when you're talking about real life problems, and having that emotional work, it feels so bad bringing up board games. But if we can invite the kids to dare to experiment, to learn new rules. To reposition fast and easy when they realized what worked well for a previous game didn't work here. Seth Ric Seth Ric Seth Ric Seth Ric Seth Ric Because I am like that and you have spoken for the need to put on blinders. So what is your advice, to stay on course and to dare to do the work? Seth Part of the work of me being a professional is to pick a game that I can inhabit in a way that makes me feel more alive, not less. And I think that anyone who has the technological and economic privilege to be listening to this is in a similar situation. Pick a game. A real life game, a professional game, a game where you get paid. That's the right game for you. Ric Seth Ric And that is that the platform's control so much, but if you create something that's yours, you can learn, you can change, you can adapt. Versus if you're creating something following that tension of the plattforms nurges. that thing you should be, you need to be everywhere you need to be here. Then someone else controls what happens if they change or they decommission or upgrade or install or do premium, or whatever. Seth Ric Seth Ric Seth Ric Seth It's about the Wizard of Oz. And basically one of the lessons we can learn there are a bunch but one of the lessons we learned is that the Tin Man, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly lion, were not compelled to go on the journey with Dorothy, they volunteered to go on the journey. They went on the journey, because helping each other to get to where each wanted to go was a choice. It was in enrolment, it was a game they wanted to play. When we say to people, you have to show up at the Zoom meeting, we're taking attendance or you're fired. When we say to people, you have to do this, you have to do this, you have to do this because I need to control you. Suddenly the voluntary nature of the game goes away. The goal of significant work is to have a goal is to say we are all seeking to do this together. These are the rules. How do we bring a certain sort of energy with us to do it? So the goal of the song of significance itself the book is to give people who give me the benefit of the doubt a tool that they can bring to work that they can bring to their co-workers and say let's all read this So that's gonna take us two hours, and then decide if we want to get real. Because if we can rewire the rules of work, we can make magic happen. Ric Seth Ric That is again putting yourself on the hook. Seth Ric Seth Ric Seth That's why it resonates with me. So the key turning point in the movie is and I actually did the computer game version based on Frank Baum's original books. I have studied the Wizard of Oz in great detail. The movie is very different from the books in really interesting ways. In the movie the key moment is when Dorothy shows up for the first time. And the wizard says “if you bring me the broomstick of the Wicked Witch of the West I will send you home”. What we know is that the wizard didn't need a broomstick. He said it so that Dorothy would go away and not come back. And often in our lives, people send us out for a broomstick. We're making a B2B sales call. And someone says, Yeah, but do you have a spreadsheet showing baba, baba, baba? We go get that thinking that if we bring it back, they'll say yes. No, they just wanted us to go away. So what we need to understand is, is this a broomstick problem? Or is this real? Is this something that we're doing because people have a checklist and they're just trying to move on or is it because it matters? When I was busy helping to invent the first generation of internet media, people sent me out for broomsticks all the time. And I really felt like if I just collected enough broomsticks, we would be fine. And in fact, what I learned from the let's get real or let's not playbook is you can turn right back to the wizard and say “do you really need a broomstick? Because if you really need a broomstick, help me understand why. if not, let's get to work.” Ric And EVERY time he talks about that with our students, I get goosebumps. But also, that we receive it for what it is, because it doesn't have to be that they just want you to go away consciously. It might also be that that's their excuse. Unconsciously, they're asking you for things. So we need to have empathy with them, but also help ourselves see, this is a detour that isn't serving either of us. Seth Ric Seth Ric
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Sun, 21 May 2023
its still about doing work that you and those you serve wants repeated * In healthy organizations, leaders take responsibility for the system and people take responsibility for their actions. above quote is helping me take ownership of making this better for those around me.
After you've collaborated with someone, you'll have a clear idea if they're someone you'd like to work with long-term. Conversations about work don't equate to actual work. An interview, for example, is an artificial construct that doesn't capture the reality of doing a job like programming. Collaborating on tasks is a different ballgame compared to merely discussing work. Just as you may love your friends, it doesn't necessarily mean you'd want to engage them in a substantial professional commitment. Once they AND you have fulfilled the commitment you both agreed upon, if they performed well, invite them to take on more tasks. If not, you can assign them different tasks that promote learning while still contributing to your projects. Adopting Peter Drucker's philosophy of treating everyone you meet as a volunteer can foster a positive mindset. Remember to always pay fairly - avoid requesting free samples, as this might deter the talented individuals you wish to collaborate with. It's crucial to uphold ethical practices and not exploit those who are eager to learn, earn, and grow.
Positive stress arises when we're dealing with important issues that we are capable of and eager to change. On the other hand, negative stress surfaces when we feel powerless or when we're handling inconsequential tasks - tasks that might merely serve to declutter someone else's mind rather than add real value.
* The speaker mentioning the environmental benefits of distributed work, such as reduced commuting and fewer flights for meetings. He also notes the importance of listening, knowledge management, and improving onboarding speed in this work arrangement.
Remember Horstman's Law: You're not as clever as you think, and others aren't as foolish. Always validate your ideas and keep track of your achievements. For me, protecting your team looks like this: * Encourage regular updates to their LinkedIn profiles.
As remote work becomes prevalent, so does the risk of encountering imposters. With the increasing importance of a robust body of work, it's easier for individuals to masquerade as your ideal candidate, perhaps by displaying a highly proficient GitHub account with the intent of securing internal access to your system. Similarly, fake recruiters can exploit those who are desperately seeking employment. The remote landscape calls for extra caution and stringent verification processes.
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Sun, 14 May 2023
Flow before filter. Those who see and those who dont. Do you see?
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Sun, 7 May 2023
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Sun, 30 April 2023
Take some time to reflect about the things you create, who you create them for, and the reasons behind your creations. Pay attention to your focus, effort, and recurring patterns. What kind of work would your coworker identify as having your touch on it? What improvements would they recognize as being made by you? On the other hand, what kind of work would your coworker instinctively know that you did not write or contribute to? Including what parts of their work, feelings and results would they miss your contributions in?
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Sun, 16 April 2023
Some thoughts on your Decisions and Experiments from a duration perspective.
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Sun, 9 April 2023
Where experiments go to die or fly.
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Sun, 2 April 2023
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Sun, 26 March 2023
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Sun, 19 March 2023
You dont get time back, neither do they.
You dont get to do "now" or "tomorrow" all over again. So where and with whom do you want to invest your time and effort?
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Sun, 12 March 2023
Whats Next? An Intention and its Experiment of course with Inside out Career Design I just had a great conversation with Nicola and Peter at Inside Out Career Design
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Sun, 5 March 2023
Understand what game you are playing and dont go for fancy tactical moves sacrificing effort and learning serving people here and now.
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Sun, 26 February 2023
Seth Godin, Boardgames, Showing up on the regular & leading together
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Sun, 12 February 2023
Whats worth being sticky to you and for what and whom? What am I stalling because Im afraid? Whats the promise to make now, to whom
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Sun, 5 February 2023
Welcome to Results and Relationships Today some thoughts on data-driven illusions and how they can impact our lives. With my 29 years of experience as a consultant in the data information analytics & cyber protection industry, I'm often been asked questions about data-driven decisions.
We also need to talk about cybersecurity and how to strategize around it. We often have to make decisions on outdated systems, which can be a challenge. This leads to a lot of compromises. Even if you're starting a new project, you need to be mindful of the data-driven illusions and vulnerabilities involved. Dare to talk about what you don't know and take steps to protect your business outcomes.
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Sun, 29 January 2023
Today I share an answer I did for a friend’s question on our Voxer group earlier today. The “real-life part of me” so to say – where I don’t have the tension of the microphone, thinking out out loud and slow answering a friend’s prompt. Whats my source of great results & healthy relationships and some answers on my thoughts on religious belief before attaching it though, here is a summary of my audio that a third friend made for us, very slightly edited by myself for this podcast * BELIEVE WHAT WORKS FOR YOU, work hard on letting go what doesn’t * Stories are powerful, but Truth is never pure and easy. * In our "narrative", we tend to simplify things to remove the more painful parts. We then choose our stories over Truth. * YOU ARE THE SOURCE OF YOUR TIME, EFFORT, ENERGY, and your relationships. Those around you dont get you angry. You choose you who surround yourself with after seeing their pattern. Then you made yourself angry all on your own. * I don't see the world as it is, I see the world as I interpret it. * "stories are my source." * Anti – Thesis. Dare to explore both, without it it’s not really a choice, you're just blindsiding yourself fooling yourself you made a choice.
Big credits to this great book for much of the thoughts in this episode https://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Leap-Gay-Hendricks-audiobook/dp/B00282MRQI
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Sun, 22 January 2023
Probability & Meaningful Specific Are you questioning how the three core components of probability, meaning, and specificity can be applied to the work you do? Are you looking at how these three aspects drive your decisions, both intentionally and unintentionally? Are you taking the time to consider what the biggest impact of your work is, and how the probability, meaning, and specificity of your decisions will affect the outcome? Are you willing to put in the extra effort to ensure that you have the right focus and clarity to make the best decisions possible and accept the consequences - both good and bad - of those decisions? Are you asking questions about above three in what you to those around you? Are you asking yourself what goes into the heart or mind into whatever action, intentional or not from those around you based on this trio? Take a minute and ask yourself on the biggest thing in your work right now. * Focusing on Probability - what shifts? * in the meaning beyond the work you do - or asked to do? * The specific - do you dare to make it small and specific enough so you can take credit if it works, or responsibility if it doesnt? Quite often its scary to put ourselves on the line like this, but if we do dare, we learn faster and thus help others better books mentioned: Annie Duke - Thinking in bets |
Sun, 15 January 2023
machines are talking - are you listening? I try to have these cast mostly timeless, and less timely but I’ve gotten so much machine-learning & AI questions lately and I thought I should share a perspective I don’t hear that often. The thing I believe we underestimate is the “Explain like talking to a five year old” combined with the relentlessness of machines and scripts.
Now we can have our email to ten people be automatically rewritten in transport to the sugsegment of those groups. Perhaps this time it created three copies and sent the one most maching the communication profile of the recipient. This will be so effective since it can also help you follow-up “did it work” making each interaction more effective for both of you. It can help you stay in tune with the workculture. Perhaps help you with your priorities for better effect and outcome at work by not letting you send late night messages, or if you believe you have to let them arrive at your co-workers desk in the morning. Again these tools exist, however machinelearning make you never forget to match whats effective and appreciated by each recipient. Likewise if you go into Red Alert mode a la Star Trek, the machinelearning mod can temporarily overwrite that to instant say before a launch or similar, following up on the costs of doing so for you.
Be mindful of your use of them. Listen for what you are training them ON – its not just that you’re getting help, it’s a win-win-win where you don’t see the third party ever.
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Sun, 8 January 2023
sunc costs is nothing more than gifts from your former you to yourself in the present. if you recieved it fresh today Try the road less beaten
Books recommended in this cast in case you dont have time to listen.
https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Library-Novel-Matt-Haig/dp/0525559477 How to decide
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Sun, 1 January 2023
Embracing constraints can be a powerful tool to help us create better solutions. It is not the same as arguing for their limitations, which can be counterproductive and lead to stagnation. Instead, by understanding and accepting the boundaries of a situation, we are able to find creative and innovative solutions that can help us move forward. By accepting and understanding the limitations of a situation, we can challenge ourselves to come up with solutions that work within those limits, while still achieving the desired outcome.
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