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Dina Mohammad-Laity retweeted
Underrated life advice: Wake up early and work out. It creates evidence that you have the power to take an action to achieve a desired outcome. That has ripple effects into every area. It rewires your brain. A lot of problems in life are solved by waking up early and working out.
Dina Mohammad-Laity retweeted
Remember: The water may look calm, but the crocodiles are always lurking.
Dina Mohammad-Laity retweeted
Hard work is cool but do you know what really makes startup successful? A bunch of people willing to pick up whatever task has to get done that’s potentially way outside their comfort zone.
Dina Mohammad-Laity retweeted
Zoom fatigue is not burnout. It’s boreout.
New study: when meetings are virtual, we’re not overwhelmed—we’re understimulated. Cardiac measures show drowsiness, not stress.
The antidotes are common sense but not common practice: fewer, shorter, more interactive online meetings.
Dina Mohammad-Laity retweeted
A Ph.D. in economics who spent a decade in data analysis just became the CTO of Netflix
Dina Mohammad-Laity retweeted
If you're early in your career and want to stand out, start writing. Take notes. Write the plan. Take charge of the next internal memo.
"The person who writes down the thing has tremendous power." — @pmarca
Dina Mohammad-Laity retweeted
I have my guiding motto on a wall in my house. It’s a quote from George Bernard Shaw that says: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
I am not sure about other entrepreneurs, but for me being unreasonable is a difficult thing. Like many others, I struggle with wanting to be liked.
So seeing this on my wall every day when I wake up serves as a reminder to not worry about conforming, and to persist. Because without it, companies such as Spotify and many others wouldn't exist.
Dina Mohammad-Laity retweeted
You don’t need fancy charts to communicate impactful insights from data. In fact, I believe there’s an inverse relationship between the fanciness of a chart and the information it provides.
Dina Mohammad-Laity retweeted
Metrics should drive data collection, algorithms and architecture not the other way around.
“Here’s some data, gimme insights” is backwards. It should be “here’s the metrics we want to effect, what data do we need to collect, model and query?”
Dina Mohammad-Laity retweeted
The fastest way to slow down a team?
Take away their day to day decision making ability.
Want to move fast?
1. Align on goals (what success looks like)
2. Align on strategy (how we will achieve it)
3. Align on resources (budget & team)
and then get out of their way.
Dina Mohammad-Laity retweeted
My rule of thumb for career success, back in corporate America, used to be a simple two-step:
1) Add Value
2) Make Noise
But due to the changing environment, I’ve been telling my engineering friends a third step:
3) Make Noise far outside your organization four walls
Dina Mohammad-Laity retweeted
Looking for “fulfillment” or “meaning” at work is a fool’s game.
I’ve had a long professional career and I don’t recommend it.
Here’s how to find enjoyment in your career:
1. Find a profession where the impact of your work is directly linked to the effort you put in
You need a tight feedback loop to learn fast and stay motivated. If you have to wait to see the impact or if the impact is not linked directly to your input, you’ll lose motivation and drive.
2. Treat your job as a craftsman
Whether you’re running a business, writing code, designing webpages or fixing toilets, acting like a craftsman will help you improve your skills, delight your spirit and fill you with joy.
3. Optimize for autonomy
Any role where you have little control over what you do will suck your soul and leave you feeling empty. It’s better to be underpaid than micromanaged.
4. Do something you actually enjoy
I’ve tried many different things in my career, software engineering, data engineering, data science, project management and product management.
Every time it was obvious whether or not I enjoyed it. That’s why I always recommend trying out various jobs, ideally within the confines of your existing company just so you have a taste.
Dina Mohammad-Laity retweeted
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