« People don't burn out from too much work. They burn out from too much unfulfilling work. » In his article, Jason Lengstorf asks us how do we define our success? Not an easy question huh? To help us with this task, Jason shares his Job Fulfilment Matrix. A nice visualisation to remind us that any work/leisure related activity can’t just be energising. It’s all about finding a balance, and the first move towards it is to understand what we do and how it makes us feel.
Before reading Jason Lengstorf’s article I never perceived a difference between being nice and being kind. Remember that time when you came home after a dinner with some friends and noticed that salad leaf stuck in your teeth? Remember how mad at your friends you were for not telling you? After a few minutes you tempered and thought they were being nice because they didn’t want you to feel embarrassed. Yes they were nice, but they refused to be kind, putting their comfort first over your good. When you really care about the people you’re interacting with you can’t always avoid to have uncomfortable conversations. « Being nice is a betrayal of trust. » I agree with Jason, there is something dangerous in always wanting to be nice rather than being kind. The personal and work experiences Jason shares in his article are situations that could have happened to all of us, at least once. Trying to be nice all the time is avoiding difficult and uncomfortable conversations when frankness and honesty are required. Of course there are ways and means to say it right (your intentions can’t lie), but being kind is a sign of respect.
Everyday, we all use a large number of tools to input and output content the way we need it, and all of those tools have a default way of working. The purpose of a default configuration is to be able to use the tool straight away for what it is made. And it works! But the trade off is often a bit less obvious. In fact, the end result is not always fully optimized for what you just need because it includes a lot more things you didn’t even know or expected. Of course, it’s easy for the creator of the tool to overlook the default and make it the most impressive it can be. But he must be aware that 50% of the people are going to use it by default without asking questions, even if it’s not fully optimized for their use case. Unfortunately, what we usually end up with is a less good experience for the end user. As Jason Lengstorf summarized it well, "By making the default to do just the right things, you immediately improve whatever ecosystem/community you’re part of."
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« People don't burn out from too much work. They burn out from too much unfulfilling work. » In his article, Jason Lengstorf asks us how do we define our success? Not an easy question huh? To help us with this task, Jason shares his Job Fulfilment Matrix. A nice visualisation to remind us that any work/leisure related activity can’t just be energising. It’s all about finding a balance, and the first move towards it is to understand what we do and how it makes us feel.