Mr. T Really excellent article on the similarities of C-PTSD and "burnout." Complex-PTSD is basically ptsd that you get slowly over time instead of one traumatic instance. bustle.com/wellness/burno…

In the past 5 years, I have conducted numerous job interviews. Those who got hired had 1 thing in common. They had one or more of these 13 UNIQUE traits:

I'll pbly get in trouble for this, but I just do not believe people can do their best work working alone. We humans have a 200K-year history of not doing that. We are social animals. Coordinating once a day (or coordinating by leaving a trail of notes) is not working together.

X : Do you think politics should be kinder? Me : Hmmm ... 120,000+ dead from austerity, 170,000+ dead from covid, 14 million in poverty and things will get worse with the cost of living crisis. Of course I believe in a kinder politics than the horror show we have today.

It's interesting how much we hear about psychological safety without any conversation on the other side, like acknowledging the existence of chronic psychological threat

When President Clinton banned assault rifles in 1994, mass shootings dropped by 43%. After Republicans let the ban expire in 2004, they increased by 243% — please don’t tell me bans don’t work, because I don’t want to hear it.

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There was a massive story that broke this week about the Trump family and the Secret Service. It's flown mostly under the radar. Let's talk about it.

Unhealthy relationships are ruled by anxiety and guilt over letting people down. At best, you're relieved when you don't disappoint. Healthy relationships are guided by joy and gratitude from lifting people up. You get the pleasure of contribution—not the pressure of obligation.

Yes. If you're serious about fewer bugs in prod, the answer is not to spend ever more time and energy testing, it's to invest -- culturally and technically -- in production. Feature flags, instrumentation, observability, progressive deployment, and a healthy on call.

Outdated models of "resilience" ask people to bounce back or self-correct within unworkable systems. True capacity happens, however, when people are supported in stepping out of the system - using their voice and values to shape new ways of working.

> 70% of all projects in the world FAIL. Biggest Reason: Failure to find people WHO matter, and what they WANT. Here’s a simple framework you can use to do that:

Holy. Shit. What a brilliant, horrifying cover.

We spend too much time trying to reach other people's standards, and too little time defining our own. It's better to disappoint another person than to lead a life that disappoints you. Success is not about meeting someone else's expectations. It's about living up to yours.

Complex PTSD is like a layer-cake of trauma, and a sort of patchwork of mental “disorders”. But it’s more accurately experienced as cumulative *injury* - biological, cognitive, emotional, spiritual - that comes from interpersonal-environmental disorder: PTSI/c-PTSI.

We're frequently messaged that the core of our humanity - our ability to feel - has no place in the professional world. But in reality, our humanity lies at the center of the professional world. It drives our success.

Want an excellent team? Celebrate the assist as enthusiastically as you celebrate the goal.