Business tranquility

We need to show up. We need “courage over comfort”, like Brene Brown says. We need a safe space that can support our needs. We need people who can help and listen. But most of all, we need to show up.

I have zero expectations about myself.

Actually there are three things I truly expect daily about myself:

1. Journaling (~ 2-3 lines)
2. Blog (~ 1500 …

You know life is happening because things happen and emotions are flowing.
How do you make sure you don't do nothing in excess? Moderation is key.

Temperance is one of the virtues from stoicism, and one I respect a lot. …

Make your life and projects a long term goal. Play the infinite game. Are you in?

How do I play with emergent learning? To me, it’s all about learning. I find people that can share stories with me. Usually I’m more interested in failures than victories. I want people interested in living the problem …

I was thinking about this word: journey.
Actually I was listening to Don’t Stop Believin’ and there’s this part:

… Some will win, some will lose
Some were born to sing the blues
Oh, the movie never ends
It goes on and on, …

This reflection came after listening to “try everything”. That’s episode 71 from rework podcast. They were talking to Mert Iseri about his process to learn something new every year or sort of.

I was thinking about my …

How do you help people?

You need to engage with kindness, to be able to listen and care. Do you have the space needed to do that?

You also need the courage to show up. You may need to share information that are …

How can you feel this? This is a process of consciousness. How can I build this feeling of tranquility, because I have what I need and I am what I am?

So I’ve found in minimalism part of this answer.

It’s been a process …

If you are not feeling amazing about something, say No.

Throw yourself into projects that resonate with your process. Say hell yeah when you feel like you need to start something and are willing to drop something else …

I’m learning to see the difference from desire and needs.

I was listening to “don’t stop til you have enough” from Michael Jackson, and a different issue came up. I thought: I do have enough. Do I?

How are you looking …

In times like these I will just stop. Just for a moment.

I will set the stage to come out again. Not stronger, better, nothing like that.

I just want to let it flow.

In times like these I will just let it flow. I always …

Making life simpler. I live my professional life with a backpack since 2008.

Clothing, I’ve made my wardrobe filled with less stuff year over year. Books are becoming digital or I can choose a service with most of them …

I write every single day. It can be a couple of book pages, a blog post or a base text for a podcast episode, like this one. If I write, I feel fine.

And the good thing about this is that sometimes I’m writing business …

In this particular time where we are playing isolation mode, I believe courage is a good virtue to play along with us. When I think about courage it …

Work as hard as you can, they say.
Build your work ethic, they say.
People who are able define a why, find any how.

Can you work without sleep? I can.
Can you work without living the house during the weekend? I can.
Can …

Ups and downs, highs and lows... cycles, seasons, you name it.

The thing is that we can’t be happy all the time.

And we can’t feel awful because …

If you have focus on safety, you need openness too, before you can consider inclusion.

Being able to listen, to have internal space to listen, is not something easy and available 100% of the time.

And being open to …

I want to play basketball. How good I want to be? I want to be a three point shooter. I want to read the game and read defense better.

Can I play in a competition team? No. I need much more than I want at this moment. …

What do you really need?
Why do you need to run?

Patience can help you.
Calm can become a routine.

Are you ready?

Planning poker as a metaphor to say you don’t know. Safety environment. Being who you are and find spaces to communicate what you need. Non violent …

That’s it. Make sure you care about your journeys. A victory or a defeat means just a step, a result, but it can’t define your journey. Make sure you …

The two aspects to have success running your side projects. Patience and persistence!

Don’t know about you but I believe we can’t plan our legacy. It’s about making sure we are doing things we believe. And making sure we are on track about things we care. Someday you will look back and see what you have …

I talk a lot about work life balance, but here I am to tell you to take another look into that concept.

I came to understand that my life is always forcing me to one side.
I can't be balanced 100% of the time. Sometimes …

I’m learning again to play the drums, and using more of the process I’m using to practice basketball. I’m giving a lot of importance to fundamentals. Accourding to the dictionary, fundamentals: it’s a basic principle, …

Make sure that you are able to teach people about stuff you know and that you are able to find people to teach about what you want to know. Creating knowledge is a continuous process and it’s pure joy. Make knowledge …

Making sure you are able to delivery quality work is key when thinking about sustainable pace. It’s not about doing less hours than needed. It’s about understanding your process and your team process, to execute, plan, …

Don’t fake til you make it. That’s not fair to your story. Document and share your process. Don’t be aspirational. Be who you are. Be true to you.

Find people that can help you along the way. Those people will be mentors. They have real life experiences. Learning by doing is great but understanding by context is awesome!

Back in 2001 the 22 years old Daniel felt a great amount of anxiety every Sunday night, around 7pm. So I wanna tell you how that became my engine to …

There’s a difference when you are building a network or a community. Check it!

If you could transform breathing into something you do, what is it? I’m playing with minimalism a lot, and making sure I’m doing what really matters …

I’m sharing my process to create inner space. How do I manage to be able to listen to people. Who takes care of me? How can I be present and focused?

Dont’t look for likes. Look for impact.

Most people think about rules and goals and tasks, but that’s not “the thing”. We need self awareness and we need to become more conscious about how …

If you can make something easier, do it.

Things I think about if I’m about to build a new hiring process. Whole team
Patience / email / references / sample code (unit testing)
Money is about …

Ideas worth nothing IMHO... make sure you can execute them. How much do you value your ideas?

Find your metaphors. A rant about manifestos after the agile manifesto, spotify model. Also some thoughts about ego and silos.

I was thinking about choices and decision making process. And during this process I reference a podcast from basecamp (rework.fm ep 4) and also a podcast from Tim Ferriss and Greg McKeown (tim.blog ep 355).

Commitments or moving a hobby into a new business. You have stuff you like to do, you have stuff you wanna learn and new stuff you wanna excel. I’m going for moving writing from a hobby to a new revenue stream. Let’s …

Don’t ask why. Look for different approaches.

Metrics? Start limiting work in progress.

Some people want to control emotions. We need more connection.

My perspective on (agile) certifications

Creating time to new projects! Find your community, talk to people and go for your first step. Learn from it, and get the next step. Iterate from that!

The best thing we can do is to be ourselves. Be yourself! Find what you are good at. Find people to partner with in stuff you don’t wanna be good at.

Building flow. Current state, find bottlenecks and improve!

The employee pyramid

Self organizing teams

Pay it forward

The safety network and goals

OKRs!

You don't need to rush. What's next?

Drop your ego. Play for your community.

The belonging process. Don't try to "fit in". This is more important than it is to wear sun screen.

Communities of Practice to build people.

Don’t feel busy. Feel valuable.

Why do you wake up?

Spike solutions to help discovery mode.

Presentations? Use a mindmap and real life stories.

Personal Branding. Do you!

Find how to build projects using an agile approach. Make sure you are learning.

You are a community.

Agile Methodologies and eXtreme Programming.

My intro about how do I use stoicism on a daily basis.

Frustrated? It’s just a choice.

Find your cadence, practicing and documenting what you do.

Engagement at work

Inbox Zero

Conscious time and tools

Emotional Intelligence

Soft skills and you

Getting Things Done

Are you ready?

Say no to create time!

Tired? Me: safety mode.

Waiting is the worst kind of waste.

If you want meaninful things, go deeper!

Awareness

A simple list can help you with your time :)

What time is it? How are you using your time? Do you have time for nothing? Do you have time for silence?

Episode in portuguese! Conversa sobre iterações e como podemos criar um ciclo de entregas mais frequentes para os nossos clientes.

Deliver as soon as possible! :) • What are you not going to do in your life? 🤔

Open ended questions to ignite a conversation!