Listening to this absolute freaking banger this morning 🤘
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The Three Rules Of Great Incentive Program Design
Good incentives make people better. Bad ones make them clever in all the wrong ways. Three simple rules for designing systems that actually work.
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Alex Standiford
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Alex Standiford
I was wearing a black shirt when I made this pizza today. By the time I was done, I looked like a freaking Holstein 🤣
The pizza came out great! I think maybe it was a bit thinner than I wanted but that’s just because I have too much fun tossing it.
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Alex Standiford
A chunk of my team is out of the office this week, so I’m playing quadruple duty this week. I’m really glad I have my time budgeting and task management in-place, because I’d be completely off the rails right now.
Nothing reminds you of how much your team does for you when you’re not looking like suddenly losing a few of them for a week. So grateful for their help.
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Alex Standiford
I started a batch of pizza dough over the weekend and OMG it came out so good. I used Forkish’s same day pizza dough. Sat in fridge overnight. Cooked on a pizza stone cranking the heat up as high as I could.
I’ve historically cooked my pizzas in cast iron, but I think I’m a convert after this.
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Alex Standiford
Today’s list:
- Update plugins on a client site
- Onboard sales person
- Review pull requests
- Organize GitHub issues
- Schedule calls to onboard new client
Let’s GO
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Alex Standiford
I replaced my morning slot from doing office work to doing dishes, cleaning my kitchen, and jamming to very loud music, and as a result, I got more done today than I got done yesterday.
I certainly don’t know the exact cause of this, and your mileage may vary, but it does continue to support my firm belief that more time does not necessarily mean more things get done.
Sometimes you just need to know your rhythm, and know when you’re going to be productive and when you’re not, and try to optimize for that.
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Alex Standiford
Today:
- Prepare to onboard salesperson for tomorrow
- Set up kickoff meeting with newly signed client
- Prepare notes and agenda for the Q4 quarterly meeting
- Work on various support tickets for existing customers
Feeling like we’re at the tipping point this quarter. LFG
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Alex Standiford
Today has been all about meetings. I’ve got 3 new people on my team, and most of my Mondays go into helping to train them.
So grateful to have help. I didn’t ask for it well enough in the past, and I’m working hard to do that more this year.
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Alex Standiford
You know when you have an idea, and you want to go and work on it instead of doing the work in front of you? I resist that urge with my Todoist inbox.
Sundays are for reviewing that inbox, adding notes, organizing, and cleaning up. Always feels so good to get that to inbox zero.
