Some Business Quotes I Remembered

What I'm Up To (Beat a Video Game), What I Reflected On (Some Business Quotes), and What's Occupying My Mind (Do I feel like doing anything) - all part of Allen's Friday Flights

HELLO to my Friday Flights

Welcome back to my personal updates around the random things I do. But it is on brand to be random, so is it truly random?

Ciao!

Allen

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Past Friday Flights

• 9/30 - The 1 thing I would tell younger me to do.

• 9/23 - Making Ratatouille is Bullshit

• 9/16 - The Lazy Approach to Improving

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What I’m Up To

TL;DR: Horizon Forbidden West is great

The Things:

• “For the last 7 years, I’ve been asking 3 questions very single day…”

• I beat Horizon Forbidden West. I love this series. Photo above is a screenshot I took. You get to go to the ruins of San Francisco too.

• Saw a bit of Cyberpunk: Edgerrunners. It’s okay, it only makes me more disappointed in the actual Cyberpunk 2077 game.

• Avatar, the blue people movie, is a great movie with an unmistakable, easily followable storyline. Pocahontas in space. Anyway I saw it again in 3d. So good.

• I crossed 600 miles on my On Running shoes. Also I ran half a marathon last Saturday.

• Pulled the trigger on Amex Platinum. What? It had a 150k sign up travel bonus.

• Hosted a picnic last Saturday. Great to see friends. Next year it’s time to bring in the Be-Like-a-Kid Picnic vibe. I wrote it, so now it has to happen.

• Congrats Haley on the new job. She used my resume guide.

• Steven I know you read this so congrats on Partner. GG on your 1st year buy in.

• Javier - I swear if you don’t make moves, ಠ_ಠ.

• Yue - Keep going k thanks.

• Adrian - stop reading this and enjoy Singapore

• Mike - If bike is short for bicycle, is Mike short for Micycle?

• Charlene, I’m no longer on a career break. Here’s the official notice for you.

• And for everyone else - unconditional offer:

  trash jones @jzux

  i’m here if you need moron support. it’s like moral support but stupid

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What I Reflected On

TL;DR: A collection of business-related reminders I like.

Photo by Kenny Eliason on Unsplash

Some Business Quotes I Remembered

Here are some recurring thoughts I’ve had in the last few weeks:

1. When do you work in the business, and when do you work on the business?
   (Used to go from macro to micro)

2. What would have to be true for this to work?
   (Used for opposing viewpoints or disagreements)

3. I hear what the goal is; what is the anti-goal?
   (Used to figure out what we are actively avoiding)

4. We are in a position where we are making trade-offs. What feedback are we okay hearing about , and what are we trying to avoid?
   (Used when things simply have to give, and we go with what we have)

5. This is a thinking job. When do you put time to think?
   (Used to justify not being in front of a screen)

6. How do we design for your success?
   (Used when you have your first direct report but really I use it to see if a person has ever though about themselves that way)

7. What do you want to do about it?
   (Used when you want to give agency to another)

8. Is that their expectation, or is that your expectation of what you think their expectation is?
   (Used to flatten out where certain expectations are coming from)

9. Chop Chop
   (used to make the team go faster)

10. Complex is easy, simple is hard.
    (Used to level set expectations on the difficulty of simplicity)

11. You should price enough so that your customer comments or complains, but still pays.
    (Used to get out of a discount pricing strategy)

12. What’s the most fun / dumbest option we can do?
    (Used to break a stale room)

13. Why now?
    (Used when a new random idea gets suggested from a hippo)

14. All problems are problems of relationships.
    (Used as a reminder to myself that one’s emotional, spiritual, technical, or social distance to an issue can dramatically influence how someone treats an issue)

15. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena…
    (Reminder that you are the most qualified person to be doing anything because you are actually there.)

I got more quotes / phrases I remember. Usually remembered during running. Then I forget. It’s a struggle.

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What thing is on my mind

TL;DR: A haiku if you feel like doing anything today.

Photo by Gemma Evans on Unsplash

Do I Feel Like Doing Anything Today?

• No No No No No,

• No No No No No No No,

• No No No No No.

written by Ziwe Fumudoh