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Holidays, always a nice moment to reflect on things. One of the things might be your personal development and productivity.What this episode coversSaying yes to too many things, do these things add to my personal development, how do you keep track on all these commitments, how do you ensure you don’t drown and eventually don’t be productive at all. Sounds familiar to you these questions? Keep listening, we dive into the personal experiences with the two guests of the show.We discuss some nice statements on personal productivity:If I am invited for a meeting and I don’t know my value/contribution I skip the meeting.I say “Yes” too easily so I need a strict WoW that helps and remind me to say no.There’s no I in a team but there’s an I in Winner (Team over Person or not?).Tools like GTD, Pomodoro etc are all useless. The only thing that matters is self-discipline.GuestsBart Enkelaar; Software Engineer and SRE advocate in bol.com and external speaker and friend of the show (SRE during spaces summit 2019)Eduardo da Silva; Technical Leader & (Socio-technical) Software Architect at bol.com and friend of the show to be…. Stay tuned.NotesYour personal NorthstarGetting Real, by BasecampShare your personal goals in the team goals: Team CanvasGamify your life and reach your personal goals with HabiticaWrite, plan and get organized with Notion.soPillars, Pipelines and Vaults (PPP), by August Bradley
Holidays, always a nice moment to reflect on things. One of the things might be your personal development and productivity.What this episode coversSaying yes to too many things, do these things add to my personal development, how do you keep track on all these commitments, how do you ensure you don’t drown and eventually don’t be productive at all. Sounds familiar to you these questions? Keep listening, we dive into the personal experiences with the two guests of the show.We discuss some nice statements on personal productivity:If I am invited for a meeting and I don’t know my value/contribution I skip the meeting.I say “Yes” too easily so I need a strict WoW that helps and remind me to say no.There’s no I in a team but there’s an I in Winner (Team over Person or not?).Tools like GTD, Pomodoro etc are all useless. The only thing that matters is self-discipline.GuestsBart Enkelaar; Software Engineer and SRE advocate in bol.com and external speaker and friend of the show (SRE during spaces summit 2019)Eduardo da Silva; Technical Leader & (Socio-technical) Software Architect at bol.com and friend of the show to be…. Stay tuned.NotesYour personal NorthstarGetting Real, by BasecampShare your personal goals in the team goals: Team CanvasGamify your life and reach your personal goals with HabiticaWrite, plan and get organized with Notion.soPillars, Pipelines and Vaults (PPP), by August Bradley
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