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Personal Growth

Things I'm learning along the way. Books I've read, deep dives specific topics, reflections... I digress.

Trust is antifragile

After reading about 'anti-fragility', I wrote a brief reflection on how relationships built on trust can get better through unavoidable volatility, randomness, disorder and stressors.
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Review: The Making of a Manager

Just before joining Facebook I read "The Making of a Manager", a book written by Julie Zhuo, who joined the team as an intern and grew into a VP Design role. I summarised my favourite parts of the book in this article.
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Review: Radical Candor

Three reflections I made after reading Kim Scott's "Radical Candor", which I consider to be one of the best books for managers and leaders, regardless of their craft and experience level.
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