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Hi! 👋. I’d be happy to join your community of curious, self-reflecting women. 😀

It's Saturday, a great day to link in to a webinar on building AI Agents. Anything to avoid having to do the house chores I actually lined up.

I thought “releasing” was the entire point of yoga, with the conservative discreet option to do it in a heated room to hide the tears amongst the sweat. Did I miss a memo? You’ve got it fine tuned, clearly. Now pass me the tissues, please.

So I learned that the request was actually to turn off “reply to all” only, and that subtle difference got lost at the first relay point. Which tells me there is an information stability problem in that organisation and I’m not surprised as they exchange primarily through WhatsApp audio messages.

Give me good reasons why a business should turn *off* their out-of-hours email auto response. Serious ask. Alternatively send me all your white papers and case studies on why such an automated response is best practice. Thanks.

a person is pushing a large rock up a hill Alt: animated cartoon on a loop of a person pushing a very large rock up a very steep hill, as soon as they’ve made some gains they and the rock slide down to where they began.

Exercising is like doing the dishes. As you as you’re done, you have to do it again. Don’t do it for too long? Oh boy. Then, like a pot of boiling water on the stove, any fitness gain disappears if you don’t top it up consistently. It’s soul crushing to be honest. Why yes, I just finished a session.

Oh no! Am here if you want to rant senselessly, just call. For what it’s worth, #BalancedTeam yesterday was the highlight of my week, seriously.

Thanks! Passing it on, they’ll mention me!

Hey Martin, this is great news, congratulations! As someone who did a stint in a UK ministerial department's "born-out-of-GDS digital team", I salute the effort! Would you know if there's any recruitment ? I know good highly experienced people in Berlin looking to contribute meaningfully...

THANK YOU for sharing that little gem of joy!

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Why I 🧡 the web.

drawafish.com

Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

In today’s #BalancedTeam meetup, the topic of behaviours resulting in performative outputs and low/no value outcomes came up. Discussion identified giving people a chance to understand how they come across, and making leadership clarify expectations in terms of results. It’s not easy but necessary.

Accountants doing manual journal moves of expenses from an account to another without visible sense, reason or notes piss me off like nothing else. Now somebody needs to explain why a hotel receipt is in "Software Expenses". I shouldn't have to go back through accounts with a fine toothed comb.

Trying to diplomatically teach a **much younger** colleague what Google is, and why it's better than emailing me when they want to find publicly available information. This is not the future I was expecting, to be honest.

Well done for methodically editing! 99% of people don’t then give LLMs a bad name.

DARVO is near impossible to manage rationally, only solution is to keep a strong light shining on the objectionable actions or words, stand one's ground, and get out to focus on good people instead while cutting off the steam of the narcissists as much as possible. Alone is where they end anyways.

I really wish Meta weren't such (pardon my french) asshats about WhatsApp's connection to other tools - WA is mostly the place where messages die without action, because it's near impossible to connect to a task management tool - unless yakshaving and using a Business account. Sigh.

I'm experimenting with improving my productivity using Sortd and HubSpot CRM - anyone has tips and tricks to share?

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Spot on.

Managers who reserve negative feedback for official reviews, you’re not being professional nor responsible in your duty of care. Have the difficult conversation as soon as you spot the issue. Otherwise you’re personally enabling its continuation. #leadership #LineManagement #HR

I was wondering where I'd find a specific group of people to ask a n00bie question, and realised they'd be on Facebook. So I dusted off my old account, joined a group and asked my question. Now I'm sad that FB is still the only place for people who share hobbies to find one another and exchange.

There are more and more tools available to help with every part of a business, but the orchestration is still the weakest point. Too many tools get hyper specific, open an API and let end customers do the heavy lifting of customisation. Think holistically before committing! Ask us for advice...

Hope you are fine and healthy!

This is so cool!! Thanks for sharing!

I have decided to leave my Twitter account as it is and not delete it. I barely posted 10 messages on X but used to have fantastic conversations with good people before the switch, and I grieve those. It’ll give the AI some decent material to train off of, or at least I like to think so.

And the lack of control over finances, what a stupid expense…

Deep breaths…

I think it adds a delicious dollop of bellenderie…

Bet they want to mail you the QR code…