Emphasizing on WHY something needs to be done has a flywheel effect where it feeds into future decisions.

If you only concentrate on the WHAT, you miss the opportunity to create a system for decision making.

A neutral, emotionally unattached third party can figure out when people start talking past each other in a heated involved argument.

In a world where knowledge is abundant and easily accessible, knowing WHAT to do and the questions to ask is more important than knowing exactly HOW to do something.

I attended this year’s Amazon AWS re:Invent. A reflection on the fun+learning experience.

https://abhyrama.com/2019/12/20/reflections-from-aws-reinvent/

Everyone keeps talking about how hiring is a big challenge.

Yes, hiring is a challenge.

But the more significant challenge is in creating an environment where the people you already have can thrive and realize their full potential.

There are no stark original ideas or thoughts.

Everything is incremental and built on something previously known and understood.

In Twitter debates, it is not the best idea that wins. It is the person who can craft the pithiest reply in 280 characters that wins.

You can either

Make decisions for others.

Or

Give a framework to others to make their own decisions.

Two is what delegation is all about.

In the cacophonous din of US versus THEM, the ability to hold nuanced opinions is dead.