Celebrating The 100th Weekly Edition - Part III
Edition #102
Introduction
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This is the third part of the series celebrating the 100th Weekly Edition of The ContraMind Code Newsletter.
Here, we share yet another curated selection, celebrating the 100th edition, as it is an excellent time to pause and look back at all the thoughts and ideas we have accumulated over 100 weeks.
It can act as a great foundation to help you pick some of them and apply them in many things you may have wanted to do or start or continue to build your path towards excellence.
Let’s begin a dialogue on ideas learnt - Start contributing your ideas and thoughts here.
The ideas section here encourages the start of a conversation amongst us, and the aim here is to attempt to make this a collective community learning platform by learning from each other’s experiences. So, go ahead and share your ideas, experiences and thoughts. Don’t hesitate to ask questions and seek answers for them.
“Craft is the Antidote to Status Seeking.” - Scott Young(Edition #040)
“If you need to solve a complicated, ill-defined problem, it will almost always help to write about it.” - Paul Graham (Edition #042)
“There are three stages of reading a book: Structural, Interpretive and Critical.” - Mortimer J Adler(Edition #043)
“Perfectionism is a good predictor of performance in school but not at work.” - Adam Grant (Edition #045)
“Would you choose to build a house on top of an unfinished foundation?” - Salman Khan, Khan Academy(Edition #045)
“Number of people in an organisation is equal to the possibility of n-squared conversations that are needed to get things done.” - Alex Komoroske, Stripe (Edition #051)
“Returning to India has been one of the best decisions of my life.” - Hemant Mohapatra, Partner, Lightspeed India (Edition #053)
“If your goal is to avoid the pain of losing entirely, you are more likely to refuse to take risks, steer clear of challenges, and ‘play small’.” - Blakely Low-Scott(Edition #057)
“If you’ve done it before, requirements are known. If someone else has done it before, requirements are knowable. If it’s never been done before by anyone, requirements will change.” - Liz Keogh (Edition#058)
“The index mindset is about risk mitigation rather than ambition. “- Bob Seawright (Edition #060)
Unlearning starts with redrawing the context. (Edition #040)
Always look for skills, effort, value, outcome and pay gaps. If one of them shows a lag indicator, it is to reassess and recalibrate them. (Edition #041)
Professional mindsets don’t start with a job in mind. It begins with a purpose at heart. (Edition #042)
Think of success not relative to others but relative to self. (Edition #044)
Procrastination occurs due to a chemical change in your brain. Could you find a way to cheat this by breaking down what you want to do into smaller tasks?(Edition #048)
Learning how to shut off from distraction and developing coping-up strategies to handle losses and crises is critical to success and hitting your goals.(Edition #051)
Don’t forget the power of your words and their impact on the person. Your words must create possibilities rather than bottlenecks in their minds.(Edition #054)
Turning information into knowledge on demand will be the competitive advantage of the future. (Edition #055)
Me being a servant of we - a powerful leadership thought.(Edition #056)
Engineers of tomorrow have to develop the ‘power of context’ as a skill as AI takes over.(Edition #057)
Craft takes years to build as it requires continuous practice, belief and commitment to keep at it over a long time. You don’t build craft with a quarter-on-quarter or yearly appraisal focus. (Edition #040)
If there is another country or another individual who is more productive for the same cost, then it is a red flag.(Edition#041)
Is there a positive correlation between skill and value delivery? (Edition #041)
Frameworks allow you to articulate your thoughts with clarity and precision. (Edition #043)
Boards don’t have any measurements for disaggregating revenue growth and revenue mix, as these senior leaders carry significant power and influencing capability. (Edition #044)
Solve the problem first and then learn the theory. (Edition #045)
When you combine liberal arts thinking with technical thinking, it has the potential to create magic.(Edition #046)
When you take your mind away through your hobbies, it gives you new ideas, alternative ways to think and new people who come across to work with.(Edition #047)
Often more time gets spent on ‘managing the meeting’, ‘managing the boss’, and ‘managing the group’ rather than ‘getting an outcome’. (Edition #049)
Ruthless introspection is something we need to practice and get comfortable with.(Edition #050)
Adding a ‘Failure Quota’ in schools, colleges or workplaces will encourage students and people to take risks - Share, comment, or start a conversation here if you have thoughts on what you think of this idea and how to encourage and measure this.(Edition #045)
Culture cannot be faked through offsites, conferences, awards and town halls - Share, comment, or start a conversation here if you have thoughts on what are the steps in building a enduring company culture - how and where to start, sustain and keep it true to its core. ( Edition #052)
Staying on top for a long time is more challenging than getting there. - Share, comment, or start a conversation here if you have thoughts on what are the steps you have seen people take to stay once the reach the top. (Edition #059)
Being Problem-focused, not tool-focused - Share, comment, or start a conversation here if you have thoughts on how to learn to solve problems rather than learn to operate just the tools.(Edition#061)
Developing a product-thinking mindset - Share, comment, or start a conversation here if you have thoughts on what are the first principles in generating new product ideas and getting it done right. (Edition #062)