It’s performance review season and my annual reminder that your job is to make it easy for your manager to let their peers know how awesome you are. Ideally you’ve kept notes over the course of the year. If not, now’s the time to document the concrete things you’ve done.

Focus on ways that you’ve measurably improved

• the value users get from your product
• the way the business makes money
• the productivity of the organization

Don’t forget company specific expectations and ways you have helped others grow.

A company-specific expectation I miss from Microsoft is “how have you leveraged the work of others?” This is such a brilliant cultural hack to fight NIH and promotion driven development.

Former Microsoft employee Dare Obasanjo on performance reviews

Why aren't more practical frameworks taught in school?

I took cooking class & made recipes, but never learned salt, acid, fat, heat

I took PE & exercised, but never learned how to structure a workout

I took sooo many English classes, but never learned the keys to storytelling

Twitter user Steph Smith thinking about learning frameworks

If procrastination is anxiety towards the imperfection of creation, maybe the best way around it is to adopt the idea that all creation are iterative steps towards perfection - even failed steps.

Apocryphon on squandering time

Buying a home is stupid. It may make sense in a strictly financial sense, but I think people who recommend buying your own house completely ignore opportunity cost of that money, and the fact that it locks you into the same career, house and area for many years. In my opinion, buying a home isn’t worth it.

Gabriel on The Hustle

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Alan Perlis