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What Is a Personal User Manual? (2022)
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Re: What Is a Personal User Manual? (2022)
#72Oh no, not this again. I'm not sure I could muster the arrogance to write such a document about myself... and then expect people to read it. The suggested examples of what the document could contain are bizarre and yet also weirdly simple & obvious... "I am a sponge. I’ll take more content earlier rather than a formal presentation" "Please give me the bad news before I hear it from somewhere else" "Be direct. Tell me…
From the title, I expected "here's all the stuff I need to run my life in one handy place" - passwords, bank account details, when my car insurance is due, etc etc. Part calendar, part password safe. This was... not that.
So basically ISO 9000/9001 for your life.
I think most people would probably run in terror at the suggestion.
Re: What Is a Personal User Manual? (2022)
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
The weird thing about documenting own weaknesses is that once you have identified them they technically have no reason to even exist (other than your laziness), much less to be grounds for requirements you would force on others. You can learn from my behavior that I don’t take criticism well and then tone it down; however, if I am self-aware enough to know and state explicitly that I don’t take criticism well, to the…
Mmm somewhat, yes. Recognizing a flaw/a need for a change and enacting it is not instantaneous under the best of circumstances.
It’s hard to see acknowledging and publicly documenting a flaw as anything but a request to help with its elimination, and eliminating a flaw is impossible without intentionally creating the triggering condition.
Re: What Is a Personal User Manual? (2022)
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a flag link on the submission.
I don't see it. Maybe I need more points to see the flag link?
Apparently you need 31: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...
Re: What Is a Personal User Manual? (2022)
#75This looks to me as the idiocy of the pronouns, on steroids. They both are based on the wrong assumption that people have to ask your opinion before contacting you, while communication has always been based on shared standards. Normality exists. It's not something to tend to, but it exists and must be recognized and respected, and everybody is expected to do their share in conforming to normality.
What is next? Everyone sending forms to everyone to fill and sign before communication
Any normality that is not backed by violence is respectable.
Re: What Is a Personal User Manual? (2022)
#76These were popular at my workplace maybe seven years ago, and while I was into the idea at first, IMO it was impractical most of the time. Turns out it's a pretty unreasonable burden to place on people that they should read and follow instructions in a document in order to communicate with someone and to personalize their work approach for every person they interact with. The main context these make sense in is when…
Maybe they only make sense, when they are really simple like: "is it ok to message me on the weekend" Mine would be: "message anytime, don't expect response outside work hours, but can happen" "only call in emergencies"
I mean, this should just be the worldwide default.
We should not be normalizing a culture of working outside of working hours.
Re: What Is a Personal User Manual? (2022)
#77These were popular at my workplace maybe seven years ago, and while I was into the idea at first, IMO it was impractical most of the time. Turns out it's a pretty unreasonable burden to place on people that they should read and follow instructions in a document in order to communicate with someone and to personalize their work approach for every person they interact with. The main context these make sense in is when…
There is also that I have different expectations for different types of work relationships.
I don't want a manager pinging me 7 times a day with questions. But I am OK with a coworker messaging me 15 times about their progress on something we're trying to get done together for that manager. One disrupts the maker cycle and one is two makers making together in the same cycle.