Meeting in Workplace

Wasting someone’s time is the subtlest form of murder. – Lindy West As a professional in workspace, we’ve all been participant in different kinds of meetings, 1 on 1s, agile ceremonies, design reviews etc. It’s fair to say that most of our professional time in our career is occupied by meetings. If a meeting has 12 attendances and there are 5 minutes been wasted with off-topic discussion, we are simply talking about one hour of productivity loss....

October 12, 2022 · 6 min · 1223 words · Eric

How To Getting Buy-in for Your Ideas  [draft]

Continuing on the same topic Influence without Authority , you will always need to get your ideas buy-in throughout the whole lifetime. Step 1: Co-creation Step 2: Presence Step 3: Storytelling Reference

May 3, 2021 · 1 min · 32 words · Eric

Talk Note - Influence without Authority

General Idea The fundamental reason why other people wants to listen to you, and follow you is not because you know more than him/her, it’s because you care him/her. The more you care about your audience, the easier they can follow you. Keep telling the facts and figures won’t help you to influent other people. Instead, try to ask questions to your audience and keep them involved into the conversation is a better approach....

August 2, 2020 · 1 min · 119 words · Eric

7 Best Practices for Snowflake

General Introduction Key customers 7 Best Practices for Building Data Applications Isolation workloads with Snowflake Key features Zero-Copy Clone Time Travel AS OF feature Semi-structured Support add timestamp column Materialized Views Snowflake materialized views is different with other platforms Code in your Language snowflake connection diagnose system SnowPipe Use the Ecosystem Manage Cost Manage compute configure with Auto Suspend configure with Auto Resume configure suspend window after idle time window Monitoring resources all data app utilise resource monitoring FAQ Q: Does Snowflake a transactional database?...

May 5, 2020 · 5 min · 991 words · Eric

Communication in Workplace

Email Make the subject relevant, don’t reply to a lunch invite mail with critical business info - one topic per thread. Keep it short and to the point - long emails should be in a document of some sort. Don’t hide the actions in the middle - use @ to make them explicit and make them clearly visible. To means you need me to read it and/or do something. CC means you don’t need me to do anything, and I can read it when it suits me....

May 3, 2020 · 2 min · 265 words · Eric