No Day Without A Thought

Yesterday, I've been to the new episode of EOFT aka European Outdoor Film Tours.

A collection of 6 independent short movies about different outdoor sports. Even though I would say that this one didn't reach my excitement level of the last one, it was still pretty good, eye awing and inspiring.

Most of the athletes are quite 'simple', happy and ambitious people. They live for their sports and when a human does sports, they usually tend to be happy. Good company and a solid challenge and they are happy. Gotta love it.

Enjoy and go out, do some sports!

Elon Musk said he likes to think of the mind as an operating system that can be reprogrammed. (Always good to kick off with a idol caliber phrase)

I've been starting to write again before I go to bed. The thing is, I obviously won't write everything that is in my head. Not that I am super smart and/or have a lot in it that is valuable - maybe it is - who knows.

But, I do know that even just writing this simple quite post will give me some calmness to call it a day.

Not sure what it is exactly. Is it that I put something out to the world and that it fits into myself image of producer > consumer, or doesn't it matter what I write, but just the writing itself, like giving your thoughts words and structuring your own mind helps calm it down, just like reading does.

I don't know.

Another factor however, to come back to the computer reference. Once I so to speak 'download' an idea or bite of my head, my working memory needed decreases, because I don't need to keep track of it any longer. It's downloaded (actually, I will upload it as soon as I click the publish button) and I don't need to keep memory of it, because I stored it somewhere.

As easy as that. Write more down. You can't and shouldn't remember everything. Some stuff you can also just frankly forget.

Here's to a nice good night sleep.

Today I mark my 7th days as PM.

I can't really say that I am fully up to speed, but heck, how should i?

So far, I notice that I will spend a lot of time trying to learn from different departments and bringing their minds together and getting everything out of their minds in a structured way that they are not even familiar with.

On the other side, dependencies on me. Developers, designers and also sales, marketing and last but not least, the CEO are on my back for different things. Either what's the status or getting new requirements. I am basically the bottleneck on every front - whoop whoop.

Going forward I definitely need to find a way to make myself more redundant and also empowering colleagues more, providing feedback to their work style and being a manager. Exciting.

Not only do I need to bring processes in place for others to not be so dependant on me, but I also need to establish processes for myself to be more efficient (or get some things done at all). This includes for example organizing a backlog, continuous structured customer feedback, more use case/persona based work, how to prioritize features, frameworks and tools of PMs.

That's going to be my gem.

Owning that, I will be fine doing whatever after which is exiting.

Onward!

- washing my laundry, drying it and bringing it back to my wardrobe
- thinking about what to eat for food/where to go
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Wants upon a time ... usually is the start of a nice fairy tale.

Not so sure, if we ever come out with an happy end of this one, but it's ridiculous how many people still deny climate change.

Even Leonardo DiCaprio has now made a documentary about it:
As long as it helps getting everyone behind the same purpose, I'm happy.

On a deeper and likely not actionable but general mindset level: we are part of this ecosystem, and we are the only part fucking it up. Plants, just like every other being on this earth, need water. We are no different. Only because we have a brain now, doesn't mean we didn't start out the same way.

Plants need water. Animals need water. Humans need water.

Let's behave like we actual acknowledge our responsibility on earth. Only because suddenly we are so smart, doesn't prevent us from being stupid enough to fuck things up - big time.