Friday's Too Good Not To Share: 1.14.22

Duane Rollins -

I haven't done one of these in a while. As they say, sharing is caring.

Every Friday, I share other great content (with some added context) to dive into over the weekend. These could be articles, podcasts, videos, Twitter threads, or other great newsletters.

In short, these are the most interesting of the interesting stuff I've come across.

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How to Write a User Manual

All social interactions have unspoken norms. Period. Sharing an appetizer of four mozzarella sticks with your three friends? You eat only one. Riding the elevator with a group of people? Everyone faces the door. We mostly don’t say these norms aloud, and yet we know that not following them can have real social consequences.

Thankfully there’s 45 minute exercise that can elevate and expose these norms while boosting your team’s productivity, collaboration, and overall job satisfaction. I borrowed this approach from Abby Falik and ask all my team members create their User Manuals that cover:

  • My work style
  • What I value
  • What I don’t have patience for
  • How best to communicate with me
  • My typical schedule
  • How to help me
  • What people misunderstand about me

Learn how to construct your own here.

It's a worthwhile exercise for you and your teams. More on mines coming next week.

I hadn't given this much thought, but thankfully Elise Blanchard did. This is the history of how hyperlinks become blue on the web.

Spoiler: Thank you University of Maryland!

Dive into the history here.

Why Did Keisha Lance Bottoms Quit?

Bottoms’s time in office has been marked by dizzying highs (she was on the shortlist to become Joe Biden’s vice-president in 2020) and shocking lows, like her sudden announcement in May that, after a solitary term, she wouldn’t run for reelection that fall. It wasn’t supposed to end like this. When she took office in 2018, magic was the theme of her inauguration, a term she used liberally to describe the election that lifted her, “a girl named Keisha,” to the highest office in America’s so-called Black mecca. “I truly believe it was the energy and inspiration of generations of Black-girl magic that fueled our victory,” the mayor said in her first big speech, at Morehouse College. “I am Atlanta magic. You are Atlanta magic. We are Atlanta magic.”

Keisha is still magic. This is a beautiful profile on her tenure as Mayor of Atlanta and challenges of leadership.

Full article here. (Alternative link if needed)

Leave today better than yesterday ✌️.