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Something Dinesh said earlier that’s still rattling my skull: if there’s anything that I think is simple or obvious and other people don’t seem to be getting it, it’s almost certainly because I’m projecting. Super obvious on retrospect and yet I never quite framed it that way https://t.co/VYte0oMczP
45. Wine with @dineshraju - raising a child, Incerto, making smart asymmetric bets that maximize optionality, making sure you’re not fooling yourself, over-platonization, James Austin’s 4 kinds of luck, the utility of naming yet-unnamed things, the next 1B people coming online https://t.co/1bIN3OqP02
This is now a Dinesh thread. 😂 He doesn’t post on Twitter too much but working with him changed my life in several important ways. (He would insist that I make that statement more precise. Important how?) https://t.co/NGiP9kvTjb
In the early days, whenever anybody left the company, @dineshraju would lead the team in celebrating their contributions. It made for a nourishing work environment: you knew your own departure would be dignified. Took me a while to learn that this isn’t as common as it should be
It was like joining the X-Men https://t.co/wVd9JGx1OA
Dinesh found me when I was a bratty, disheveled blogger ranting about the government. He saw something in me, and brought me aboard his team of smart, kind, high-functioning geniuses working to build a great place to work. It was like joining the X-Men https://t.co/HpK5Y9j5Y1
I subtweet him a lot 😂❤️ https://t.co/bxceF8xsJg
My ex-boss gave me this gift. He was more curious about me than I was about myself. He genuinely wanted to understand my motivations & backstory to a degree that I had stopped caring about, because I didn’t think I merited that much concern. a lot of what I do now is pass that on
a way of being that conveys “reality can be made sense of, problems can be solved” https://t.co/gzHVm1Teg1
this is true for people IRL, too. the best thing I learned from my ex-boss wasn't any single insight or truism, but *his way of being*. He's calm in the face of conflict & difficulty, sincerely believe that it's possible to know things, and do things, and to change for the better
A coach and a therapist... who paid *me* https://t.co/fsdqHS8dxF
My boss was the single most powerful catalyst for my personal development for half a decade. He helped me become more thoughtful, empathetic, precise, focused, effective. It was like having a coach and therapist... who paid *me*. Most people I tell this to think it’s insane https://t.co/mTTHZxA5fK
you can be the person you needed https://t.co/QgOWb88185
no interest in playing a blame game https://t.co/amiHsrrYMY
gently but firmly point out mistakes in a constructive, supportive, non-judgemental way https://t.co/J1K0feTv5m
my ex-boss gently tried to explain this to me for years but i adamantly refused to believe him. i was always convinced that there have to be people outside of my echo chambers and bubbles who must be of immense value. that's actually a non-sequitur. both statements are correct
A lot of what I’m doing it is passing it on https://t.co/FfTXsIEMOR
My ex-boss took a huge chance on me by hiring me - I had no prior work experience, no qualifications, and on retrospect, a bunch of unresolved personal issues that affected my ability to perform at work. I was 22, broke, newly married and extremely desperate and anxious
on failure https://t.co/5dwAceBR89
My ex-boss, when prompted to write anything he liked, wrote an internal blogpost that was basically “life is about enduring failure after failure without letting it destroy you.” I thought it was bleak then, but as the years pass, I realize that it’s deeply life-affirming https://t.co/sST7NdGSYm
sometimes it takes years to internalize a simple idea https://t.co/PerHedwSRh
chat with your future (and past) selves https://t.co/GVUH73Wb1i
a whole thread of Dineshisms https://t.co/vWaERAKa6h https://t.co/jfbYui3Qbt
increasing agency https://t.co/nmWlnqRkiA
in the 5+ years I worked for my ex-boss Dinesh, he constantly, casually-yet-intensely would ask me about my goals & desired outcomes "what do you want to get out of this?" "how will you measure your progress?" "what's the next step?" "what's the limiting factor?"
a whole thread of Dineshisms https://t.co/vWaERAKa6h https://t.co/jfbYui3Qbt
increasing agency https://t.co/nmWlnqRkiA
in the 5+ years I worked for my ex-boss Dinesh, he constantly, casually-yet-intensely would ask me about my goals & desired outcomes "what do you want to get out of this?" "how will you measure your progress?" "what's the next step?" "what's the limiting factor?"