CyroSays - a podcast
I'm considering starting a podcast to explore how people end up taking different career paths. My hypothesis is that people limit their career options to what »
Standing up for yourself
We each tolerate different levels of discomfort and inconvenience to prevent others from being unhappy with us. Neither extreme makes sense. People who demonstrate little willingness »
Why businesses prefer unlimited PTO
An increasing number of businesses seem to be offering unlimited PTO policies to their employees. While this is typically marketed as a huge perk for employees, »
Default to using the name on my credit card
When I go to coffee shops, my interaction with the cashier usually goes something like this: I place my order. I'm told how much I owe. »
Managerial debt
Because confrontation can be uncomfortable, many managers procrastinate hard but necessary conversations with people they work with. While this trade-off makes life more pleasant in the »
"What do you think?"
Often when people ask, "What do you think?" they're looking for validation instead of soliciting a genuine opinion. For small things, like giving feedback »
Talking about work in social settings
I've noticed that people, as working adults, are rarely interested in hearing about professional accomplishments in social settings in the same way that they tend to »
Security smell
In the same way that programmers talk about code smell, we know when we're doing things that may compromise the security of our data. We may »
Don't tell people how to do things
It's often hard for managers to resist the temptation to make people do things they way they would have. Unfortunately, even when well-intentioned, micromanagement is suffocating »
Be careful about what you call easy
When asking someone to do something, it's tempting to say, "this should be easy," if you want it to be done quickly. The implication »