There you are, in my heart, all along

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There you are, in my heart, all along

"There you are, in my heart, shine on.
There you are, in my heart, all along."
✨

I am quoting my friend Alex Atwater, who is a wonderfully talented singer and musician. You can check him out on Instagram @thisluminousdarkness

A shell sculpture of a corn godess in a grotto. there is debate around weather it is a goddess or a canoe and paddle but the author sees a goddess in the picture
The Corn Goddess sculpture which I almost derailed my 1:1 this morning talking about today.

Learning lessons

Today brought with it an interesting lesson. 

I love to post updates and I love to share them with the team. But I also love ruthless efficiency. Make no mistake of it. I might seem sweet. I might seem cute. But really I am the most focused person in the world ever on the inside.

And the team is no exception. I want to ruthlessly contribute to that. And so in light of that I made myself exceptionally vulnerable today: I asked my PM and an Engineer on my team about the updates I was providing to the team. 

The consensus was clear:
  • Keep it short. Write out the ideas, And then break it down into headings so people can see what the topics are.
  • Ask myself - is this necessary - do the team need to know this? E.g. shout-outs could go in the shout-outs channel. Keep team updates relevant to what have I done today, what have I learned, what am I stuck on. And even then - is it worth sharing?
  • Learnings - this was a bit less clear. I guess that some of the guys in my team said that they read my blog and they know about learnings (WHAT? PEOPLE READ MY BLOG?). I didn't know this.
  • So maybe I will slowly pull Susanna Codes back to its roots a bit more - idk yet. I love to blog about renewable energy and AI and I still want that to be focused on LI posts.
  • SPREADING THE LOVE. I love to spread the love and tell the team how much they mean to me. And how grateful I am to them. There was a consensus:
    • It shouldn't take away from the important updates.
    • Too often is too much (I mean I disagree - my love is the same every day, haha, and it doesn't shrink or diminish. But I have to be mindful and respectful of the team that I am in. And if they say that it's too much, it's too much).
  • We talked about having "sharing the love" Fridays 🤣

Sharing the Love

We shall see how loving I am feeling every Friday 😉

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