Org Bite
At a team outing… is it appropriate for a manager to go to the bar with their team?
A fun question I got asked this week and included a LinkedIn poll – the responses have been a bit surprising so far.
Technically, it depends. But I think it’s a firm Yes – for reasons that may go overlooked. My personal take in the video above.
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I’ve revamped this Newsletter quite a bit (welcome, new subscribers!) for 2025 – though I worry that the weekly Feature and Friday Roundup are too much? Could you give me some honest feedback:
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Friday Roundup
If I Were In Charge: How I’d Fix Job Descriptions (Substack)
In case you missed it, this week’s feature walks through how I’ve been revamping job descriptions – which have been broken since the Paleolithic Era.AI Goes to Meetings For You And Speaks? (Journal)
A prototype AI meeting delegate system shows promise in reducing meeting burdens, with models like GPT-4 effectively capturing discussion points. However, accuracy issues, redundancy, and transcription errors remain challenges.What Everyone Gets Wrong About Self-Control (Substack)
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Really enjoyed this read fromIQ Discourse is Increasingly Unhinged (Substack)
on the absurdities in discussing IQ these days.
Great piece fromThe Most Interesting Thing In Tech (LinkedIn)
Elite distance runner Nick Thompson (okay, okay, that’s not what he’s most famous for) has a great series called ‘The Most Interesting Thing In Tech’ that I highly recommend. I really like the way he explained the possible breakthrough in quantum computing at Microsoft.Taking You to School: Motivation (LinkedIn)
I’m teaching my I/O psych graduate school class again this semester and posting topic overviews on LinkedIn. Each week of class, I’ll highlight a bit about the topic. This week: Motivation.
Musings
Our social media sabbatical is on for next week! Join me starting Monday, March 3rd, and go dark on main social apps (IG/TikTok/X/Facebook/Reddit) for a week and see what happens!
Some of you messaged me asking for some help with accountability. Easy: Venmo me $5000. If you stick with it, you get your money back. If not, I’ll donate it to a political candidate you absolutely hate.You should only ever read 3-star product reviews. Nobody is winning any online clout for writing a 3-star review, so it’s probably really measured and accurate.
How is there no universal system for setting shower temperature? We have universal clips for hair trimmers… Why is it that I have to play this guessing game every time I go to a hotel or visit a friend?
Bluey Review
Episode: Fairy Tale (S3, E26)
Summary: Bandit recounts a story of himself on vacation as a child. He gets jinxed for mean to his younger brother and eventually learns his lesson… and is rescued by a random girl that he believes was actually his eventual future-wife.
Review: This flashback story is exceptionally fun and speaks right to the GenX/Millenial parent crowd. It makes me nostalgic for 1980s when “adults were allowed to be mean” and the world was dangerous for kids (no helmets on bikes! trampolines with no nets!)… and how much easier it would be, in many respects, to parent back then. No YouTube, linear television, kids just playing outside semi-supervised by default. That sounds… really nice.
It’s rather moralistic by design but isn’t preachy and every little lesson-for-the-girls is peppered with humorous anecdotes. It also ties back to a reference in the Season 2 Mother’s Day episode when the parents reveal a debate about how they (may have) met. The episode also does what a handful of Bluey episodes somehow manage to do – start out all fun and games and then deploy subtle dialogue and beautiful music at the very end to make me tear up as credits roll.
The real question: Do we think that was actually Chili that Bandit met as a child?! There’s a popular online theory that it was actually Chili’s sister, Brandi. But my heart tells me it was, in fact, Chili.
Quote: “Nana was right… not about her perm, but about me.”
Creative Brilliance: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Entertainment Value: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Emotional Resonance: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Parenting & Life Lessons: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
(For a description of the categories, see the inaugural Bluey review here).
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