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The Power of the Pause in Decision Making

A recording from Michał Poczwardowski and Yordan Ivanov's live video

I had the pleasure of being invited by Yordan Ivanov from Data Gibberish to join his live stream on Substack.

Today we talked about decision-making, mental models, and thinking frameworks. We dug into how engineers have design patterns for code, but don't have similar tools when making decisions about people, priorities, and managing organisational complexity.

Yordan prepared a written summary here:

Data Gibberish
This Engineer Teaches Their Audience How To Think The Right Way
The session centers on a fundamental problem: You and I are trained as engineers to use design patterns for code, but we’re often left winging it when it comes to people and organizational complexity. Michał Poczwardowski argues that we need to treat our thinking process with the same level of structural integrity we give our architecture…
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Thanks for reading,
— Michał

P.S. I highly recommend Yordan’s newsletter Data Gibberish, not just for data engineers. He tackles important topics on managing complex stakeholder situations and leadership principles.

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