Oh this so good! I similarly feel that the emphasis on humility when I was younger quickly needed to be thrown out the door when I started working in corporate settings. Have you done remote work? I find it much harder to speak about and share my team’s work remotely.
Thanks Rachel! Yeah -- this is exactly what happened to me - lol humility be damned!
I've been working remotely since ~2019 and yes -- completely agree! You don't have the casual drive-by humblebrag or lunch, or HH anymore.
I've been having to come up with all kinds of hacks - data coffee meetings for share-outs, be creative about using retros and post-mortems, and trying to get my team to feel empowered to share their own work (part of what prompted this essay) :)
…essay is great…so much rock solid education amongst the deprecation…it is always weird what work becomes…i’ve been thinking in reverse a lot recently…starting from layoffs and moving to hiring and dissecting the meaning of the in between…not to find change but to consider what was most purposeful during the whole of it…in this read my takeaway is that flexible strategic communication is a means to improve utility…know thine audience…it’s a useful ideal if not a prompt in the creative sense as well…
Such a compelling argument, so relatable and resonant. Big fan of your "stupid, shiny map" story — it's gonna stick with me as a symbol for just sucking it up sometimes and doing the PR work that I so (often) badly want to resist.
Thanks for giving your work (about giving your work a voice) a voice. Love me some meta-ness!
P.S. Thank you for the shoutout, honored to have helped shape it a teeny tiny bit!
P.P.S. Love the subtitle too, so much POP in just 6 words!
Loved this piece Maksim. And like your writing style.
Thank you Zara!!
I love how this turned out, Maksim! You're POPing :)
Hahaha thank you!!!
Oh this so good! I similarly feel that the emphasis on humility when I was younger quickly needed to be thrown out the door when I started working in corporate settings. Have you done remote work? I find it much harder to speak about and share my team’s work remotely.
Thanks Rachel! Yeah -- this is exactly what happened to me - lol humility be damned!
I've been working remotely since ~2019 and yes -- completely agree! You don't have the casual drive-by humblebrag or lunch, or HH anymore.
I've been having to come up with all kinds of hacks - data coffee meetings for share-outs, be creative about using retros and post-mortems, and trying to get my team to feel empowered to share their own work (part of what prompted this essay) :)
…essay is great…so much rock solid education amongst the deprecation…it is always weird what work becomes…i’ve been thinking in reverse a lot recently…starting from layoffs and moving to hiring and dissecting the meaning of the in between…not to find change but to consider what was most purposeful during the whole of it…in this read my takeaway is that flexible strategic communication is a means to improve utility…know thine audience…it’s a useful ideal if not a prompt in the creative sense as well…
Maksim, I love how this piece turned out!
Such a compelling argument, so relatable and resonant. Big fan of your "stupid, shiny map" story — it's gonna stick with me as a symbol for just sucking it up sometimes and doing the PR work that I so (often) badly want to resist.
Thanks for giving your work (about giving your work a voice) a voice. Love me some meta-ness!
P.S. Thank you for the shoutout, honored to have helped shape it a teeny tiny bit!
P.P.S. Love the subtitle too, so much POP in just 6 words!