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21 Aug, 11 tweets, 5 min read
Gonna send out some #AppreciateWomen love from @emalone's amazing Did you Know womenofixd.com/did-you-know
I love this sassy podcast with "Drinking, swearing and two old ladies yelling at each other about what annoys us... so basically, everything."
Let's not hide knowledge behind jargon!
This is all from @emalone's great work!
Mosaic was the precursor to Netscape and was the first successful web browser.
learn more womenofixd.com/did-you-know
Too bad there is only one "fun fact." Irene ran all of Yahoo design then all of google design and now is at Khosla helping entrepreneurs. Um... AND teaches Yoga.
Who was CEO fo the influential Adaptive Path in their early years? Founded LUXR, the first Lean UX agency way before the book was written about Lean UX?
Brenda is a real OG for games and UX. Her wikipedia article can tell the tale en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_La… but I admire Purple Moon and her books, Design Research and Computers as Theater probably the most. She's a personal hero!
Rashmi has done so much great work! Don't blame her for what happened to slideshare; when she was founder/CEO it was amazing!
OMG, the work she is doing there is amazing! and dig up her talks...
I'll finish wiht a little backpat. if you found this educational, check out womenofixd.com/did-you-know

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christina r wodtke: the R is for radical focus Profile picture
20 Aug
I am against aspirational and committed OKRs. tl;dr on why: the limits of working memory and tessler's law.

What do I recommend instead: consider if you want a moonshot goal or a yoga stretch.
If you have never done yoga, a good teacher will invite you to stretch but NOT hurt yourself. So as you set a goal you can start with what you know you can do but then slowly increase it until you feel the stretch. When you say off this is a bit hard, but not impossible.
I heard stories of a company where they stopped using OKRs because the team would kill themselves each quarter to make the OKRs. Because they couldn't self-regulate I'd suggest they use yoga stretches instead. Here the manager would coach them down from their moonshot goal.
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christina r wodtke: the R is for radical focus Profile picture
19 Aug
Via the suggests, I've gotten a lot of clarity on the problem:
My students are asked to make interactive fiction (IF.) They are computer science students (HCI) and while they are all great at nonfiction, many struggle with fiction (never mind the complexity of interactive.)
Some have never even written fiction! I cannot imagine this TBH.
I notice they have a lot of freedom creating "disposable" stories such as RPGs and other story telling games.
But when they make their own story, the often start strong and then get stuck. This is to be expected:
It's often called the messy middle by writers. You get lost in the german forest, stuck in the weeds. This is where structure can really help, from the seven point thewritingkylie.com/blog/the-basic…
to the story circle blog.reedsy.com/guide/story-st…
or a beat sheet timstout.wordpress.com/story-structur…
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christina r wodtke: the R is for radical focus Profile picture
20 Jul
@rdonoghue Giant spiders mean….
@rdonoghue I want to be a spider farmer now.

I read the entire thread and have no idea what you are referring to except I’m wildly in favor of all of it.
@rdonoghue I'm now inventing a story about Jue, who forages teacup spider silk.
The teacup spider, called so because it is about the size of your grandmother's teacup, spins a strong and soft silk that takes die marvelously. It is high in demand, but sadly no one can farm the spiders.
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christina r wodtke: the R is for radical focus Profile picture
19 Jul
I have been trying to google this, but don't have the right language. How does one find a therapist who specializes in working with a service animal to address one's mental challenges?
I got my service animal over a year ago at a suggestion of my psychiatrist (who specializes in meds, and really nothing else. But he is very good at meds and respects I want as little of them as possible.)
I have worked with a service dog trainer for a year. It's made me realize
It's not enough to have a trainer. The trainer I worked with mostly focused on canine good citizenship and a handful of tasks. What I realize now I really need is someone who understands my challenges and can recommend a doggy response.
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25 Jun
Once upon a Time, someone, perhaps Andy Grove, perhaps Peter drucker, came up with a very simple idea. What if we told people what result we wanted and trusted them to figure out how to make that result happen.
They called it managing by objectives. And the big idea was saying, "we'd like to improve engagement." Or "we'd like to make the business successful by becoming the number one name in processors" or "we'd like to make the world's information findable and usable."
And then someone else figured out a good way to format it, a lot like SMART goals. Let's unite the company by having a visionary objective and clear results. And then all these smart people that we've hired can figure out what they should do to make those results happen!
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24 Jun
The problem with being a recognized "expert" in OKRs is sometimes I get attacked for something someone else is doing (typically a boss) in the name of "OKRs" that I never recommended or endorsed.
People want to tilt at me for things I've vigorously denounced, like using OKRs in performance reviews, because somehow all of the things wrong with OKRs are my fault.
I do feel bad about these things, and often wonder if I had just found the right words in the book or written a more persuasive essay or given a better talk, things might be different.
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