Randomness #7

Esta semana pasé más tiempo del normal en el carro, lo cual es sinónimo de podcasts así que van tres en esta edición. Consumir contenido en audio es muy bueno porque se puede hacer uno mientras uno camina o va en el carro pero es inconveniente si uno trata de guardar notas. En mi workflow de uso Readwise y Superwhisper, recomendados ambos y valen cada centavo.

How to Take Radical Ownership of Your Life and Career — Claire Hughes Johnson (2h16min)

Liderar personas es una de las cosas más difíciles que alguien puede hacer. Este podcast es con alguien que ha desarrollado equipos en empresas gigantes y tiene muchos consejos prácticos para implementar y que empezaré a probar. No todo son citas pero sí idea de qué escuchar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHCtb80SUHQ&t=1s

TF: I want to come back for a second to Fred Kofman and victim versus player. Can you explain what this is?  Claire Hughes Johnson: Yeah, I mean, I love this one because I think it's so simplifying and clarifying really about are you managing someone or interacting with someone who has agency, takes responsibility. (15:55)

TF: Could just give a little bit of context on what a working-with-me   document is, and how it is helpful. Claire Hughes Johnson: Sure. A working-with-me document is, basically, trying to write your own user manual. And I don't think you have to be a   people manager, but I've come to believe it's a best practice, if you are going to be managing   people, to do your best to write a user manual to working with you I bang out this document and I call it The Unauthorized Guide, because I don't work for me. So I invited comment. I said, "For those who,   actually, have had me as a manager, please tell me how on base I am or not. (40:11) *(esto lo espero hacer pronto)

"Leadership is disappointing people at a rate that they can absorb."… I think leadership is very unknowable because it is essentially having a vision, an idea, a goal that you haven't even fully understood yourself. (1:11:29)

TF How do you get extraordinary output from extraordinary people without burning them   out or letting them burn themselves out? Claire Hughes Johnson: If I was like,   "What are the pantheon of management lessons? So one of them is you've got to manage different   people differently. Another pantheon lesson is spend disproportionate amount of time with   your high performers, because instead what we all do is get all of our time sucked by   the folks who are struggling and then we don't invest in the high performers, and then they're   either burning themselves out or finding a new opportunity because they're not realizing the’re high performers (2:07:07)

You're not going to get great results from the people around you until you understand yourself. And I think there's some obvious reasons why, which is like, "I alone   can't move the mountain. I need you and I need to compliment myself. How am I going to compliment   myself with other capabilities and skills if I don't understand what I'm bringing to the table?" By the way, a lot of people think they're the director at every scene. No,   you're not. You're often an extra. And just knowing that will make you   more effective. So that's a side piece of advice for you. (2:16:14)

The maintenance race (~30mins)

Este es un relato fantástico sobre la forma de enfrentarse los retos a través de la historia de una carrera en bote alrededor del mundo realizada hace 60 años. Regálense los 30 minutos para leerlo, fue escrito por el gran Steward Brand. https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-maintenance-race/

The Golden Globe around-the-world solo sailboat race of 1968. Its drama continues to echo half a century later because three of the nine competitors became legendary – the one who won, the one who didn’t bother to win, and the one who cheated… It was expected that even the fastest competitor would take ten months to get home. Some psychiatrists predicted that so many months totally alone, at times in extreme danger, might drive them mad.

[For Robin Knox-Johnston] it became clear that SUHAILI had a very serious leak, forcing him to pump the bilges twice a day… Meanwhile a shark had arrived and was circling the boat. He fetched his rifle, shot the shark, and watched it sink out of sight, apparently without attracting other sharks. He went back into the chilly water hoping that was so… Sometimes maintenance involves shooting the shark

Optimists like [Donald] Crowhurst – and me, I confess – tend to resent the need for maintenance and resist doing it. Maybe we prefer to think in ideals, and the gritty reality of everything constantly decaying and breaking offends our sense of the world… Poor preparation and maintenance led to Crowhurst’s cheat. The cheat led to his death. His excessively optimistic view of the world and himself, which had worked fine on land, was lethal for a man alone at sea in an unfit small boat, marinating for months in two contradictory realities. He had invested so much of himself in an illusion that when it shattered, he shattered.

‘Simplicity is a form of beauty.’ That principle governed everything for him [Bernard Moitessier]. ‘Given a choice between something simple and something complicated’, he wrote, ‘choose what is simple without hesitation; sooner or later, what is complicated will almost always lead to problems’. Only simple things, he noted, can be reliably repaired with what you have on board… Obsession with detail is a hallmark of the most successful maintainers.

The different maintenance styles of the three sailors led directly to their different outcomes. Knox-Johnston’s style was: “Whatever comes, deal with it.” And he did. Crowhurst’s was: “Hope for the best.” It killed him. Moitessier’s was: “Prepare for the worst.” It freed him.

Cositas varias

Podcast Si señor | Manuela Villegas (27 mins): En este episodio, Manuela comparte su experiencia como gerente de su empresa. A veces, creemos que somos los únicos a los que les suceden ciertas cosas, por lo que resulta refrescante escuchar cómo personas exitosas en otras industrias sienten y viven situaciones similares a las que uno vive. Liderar es un oficio solitario porque solo el que lidera sabe lo duro que es. https://overcast.fm/+BB8u-vT264

Founders Podcast | Michael Jordan & Kobe Bryant Este podcast resume la forma de entender la vida de dos personas ultra-competitivas como Michael Jordan y Kobe Bryant, que van mucho más allá del baloncesto. Si buscan inspiración tienen que escucharlo. https://overcast.fm/+HBlpxupUQ

Failure doesn’t exist - Kobe Bryant