It’s high time @PolyworkHQ added some features. A thread…
Let me endorse people for things. When they're late to a meeting with me, I can endorse them for "time management." Rude to me on Twitter? You're now a Sharepoint expert.
Offer more clarity in badges. What category does unpaid emotional labor fall under?
How can I share other people's hustle-porn posts on my timeline to build clout?
I would like other people's accomplishments to feature a "Challenge" option so they stop claiming credit for that project we *all* worked on, Kyle.
I can search for people by what they’re best at; now let me search by what they’re terrible at. Show me the people who are the worst in the world at naming things so I can claim an @awscloud referral bonus.
Improve the search tools so I can conduct industrial espionage with fewer clicks.
Let me tag people with where they work. Rude to me at the grocery store? You now work in the ethics department at Facebook.
Let people recommend others for things. When they both recommend each other, remove the recommendations.
This compresses to “don’t build a recommendation feature.”
Let me recommend people for jobs. The only way I’ll ever get rid of my boss is if they take a better job elsewhere, so help me send their useless ass somewhere that sucks at effectively screening job applicants.
Show different views depending upon what custom URL people use to visit my profile. So thoughtleader.cloud can be the fun shitpost version, but a “www2” subdomain shows one that screams “professional at digital transformation,” just like @Deloitte’s website does.
Support hashtags. If someone uses more than three in a single post, ban them permanently and frame them for embezzlement.
Let me edit the @PolyworkHQ badge icons globally so this becomes the new one for “thought leader.”
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An observation on legacy: I have never once heard a story about Jeff Bezos that made me say "he seems like a nice person."
@aselipsky? Too many times to count. @ajassy? Seen it myself firsthand.
But never Jeff.
You can never get a complete picture from the outside. I get that.
But you can absolutely get glimpses of the real person behind the public persona by talking to the people who've worked with them. Given enough data points, you can tie them together into a reasonable story.
The question is "how do you want to be remembered after you're gone?"
For me, I really hope the answer to that question isn't tied to my job, but instead the people I've encountered along the way.
I can't very well do it myself. At The @DuckbillGroup, our clients these days start at ~$1 million a month in spend or so. I'm very hesitant to give guidance to small accounts based upon what large ones are doing. It's a very slanted view of the industry!
That said, the data I'm seeing in here tracks with what I'm seeing in our client environments. As the post says, "this aligns with other cloud consulting organizations @getvantage has spoken to." We're one of them. They're spot on for the big items.
The big problem that enterprises have is that the @awscloud bill is a game of Corporate Telephone between the person who receives the bill but has no context, and the person who can impact the bill who's five nodes away.
"Let's make sure that last person can never see the bill!"
Enterprise cloud deployments have their own fair share of problems, don't get me wrong. I just have a very hard time believing that "too many of our employees are looking at the bill" is in that list.
When you catch up with people you haven't seen since before the pandemic, you start off by handing them a document of what you worked on for them to read first.
Suddenly your favorite restaurant is "The Cheesecake Factory" because it's the only place that has a menu long enough.