Morfternight #65: It's a marathon, not a sprint
Hello! I am Paolo Belcastro. You are reading this because you subscribed to Morfternight, the weekly newsletter about leadership, product management, distributed teams, and anything that tickles our brains. 🤩 Welcome to the three new Morfternighters who joined us last week. 📷 Photo of the weekAlmost There - More Photos👋 Happy HolidaysI wish you the best, whatever you celebrate or if you don’t celebrate anything. To be very candid, I am not a massive fan of the end of the year. I generally feel it adds non-negligible amounts of extra pressure and stress when in fact, January is just the month after December. The end of the month, quarter, and year are all arbitrary checkpoints, almost irrelevant to making real change. Real work happens at scales, simultaneously shorter and longer. Improvement and iteration are daily and weekly disciplines. Improving a little bit every day and shipping an improvement every week or two allow for tight feedback loops, maximize learning and help spin the flywheel faster and faster. On the other hand, it takes decades to change the world. “I am in a marathon, not a sprint,” says the Automattic Creed, which has guided my professional life for the past 12 years. 🗺️ Three places to visit today
✈️ 2022 was the year we traveled againSince March, it has become possible to fly again more easily after a two-year hiatus. I had the great privilege to meet many of my colleagues this year, from Costa Rica to Mexico, Sweden to Portugal, and London to the USA, where I traveled to San Francisco, Las Vegas, Austin, Denver, and New York City. A back-of-envelope calculation tells me I met about 350 colleagues at meetups and a similarly large number of people at conferences. Each of these encounters gave me joy and made me grow and progress. Here’s to hoping that we never get locked down again! That's it for today!I write, and publish photos on paolo.blog If you know someone who could enjoy Morfternight, share it with them! 🤩 Cheers! |
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