Candost's Blog

Candost's Blog

Candost

I used to think that reading would make me wise. One day, ten pages before finishing a book, I realized that I had read that same book before. At that point, my perspective on reading and, therefore, my life had changed. Now, I don’t care how many books I read; I take many notes, connect dots, and share what I’ve found on my blog and newsletter. I’m interested in many things at the same time (I’m a multipotentialite). On this blog, you’ll find me talking to about multiple aspects of life like leadership, software engineering, philosophy, psychology, software architecture & design, urban & industrial design, exercising, finance, Formula1 Racing, eating healthy, and many more. I’m a software engineering manager; that’s my current job. At home, I’m a writer and an avid reader. I rarely watch TV, movies or TV series. I don’t have any social media account (except Mastodon where I have automated posting of my new articles). Hence, I often miss the popular culture references in conversations. That’s alright. I don’t have FOMO; I embrace JOMO. I rarely read fictional books.

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To be able to give someone autonomy and ownership, the person has to have the necessary technical capability. If they lack the skills, they will make wrong calls/judgments. Seeing training as increasing decision-making authority is a...
Meetings with managers are crucial for career development. We keep one shared document to prepare one-on-ones better. We fill this document during the week. Everyone writes down what they have in mind so we don't forget anything. We list...
Giving ownership to people and delegating the work is one of the greatest ways to empower people. I've grown in my career because my managers gave me the job and empowered me by making me the owner of the initiative, project, or piece of...
There are people who always say I should've/could've/would've done this and didn't; it is all on me. If you are leading a person like this, as Sheela Heen calls them, blame absorbers, you have to take precautions. Otherwise, it leads to...
Sharing status updates doesn't mean the team is collaborating. We need to organize our meetings to both communicate and collaborate. There can be certain meetings where we only communicate (such as daily stand-ups), but there must be...
Empowerment doesn't work without clarity and competence—empowerment results from a top-down structure. We need emancipation instead of empowerment. An emancipated team doesn't need empowerment. Because they don't need the power from the...
Top-down monitoring systems like tracking everything people do at work are not efficient. They don't work. However, we still need to collect data to monitor systems. But they should be used to make the invisible things visible and...
The feedback in relationships is about you AND the other person The feedback in relationships is never about you or me. It's about you AND me. It's a two-way street. When we hear feedback from someone else, and if they are close to us,...
In the feedback discussion, there are relationship triggers. The feedback comes from our relationship with another person. In this kind of feedback, one person starts giving feedback. The other person responds with a totally unrelated...
We create accidental adversaries because of a lack of clarity or confusion in roles. When roles are not clear, we confuse the other side. That's why the feedback we get may feel off-point; when responsibilities and roles are unclear, who...
Focus on how to pull feedback instead of giving feedback. Master the pulling feedback skills that drive our learning and curiosity. We always focus on giving effective feedback, yet whoever receives it is more important to hand over the...
Every idea in each creative process has inconsistencies and missing parts. They reveal themselves in the execution step. When an author has an idea, they don't realize the inconsistencies in the idea and don't see the missing points...
We can discover our hidden creativity instead of focusing on negativity and how incompetent we feel. Set aside some time and go over the following to find out your creative sides: Success: Think back and find out your talents and...
We can define traditional systems thinking as separating the system into parts, looking at the relationships between them, and designing the overall system while thinking about these relations. In systems thinking, the problem is...
While preparing and planning software architectures, the architect can get help from the actors/actions model to discover how the system will be used by whom. The architect defines actors and how they act in the system. The actors map...
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