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If you could improve the efficiency of any task in your job by 100x, what would it be?
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Communicating with wholesale suppliers.
It’s mostly done through emails. I send an order by email, it takes a while until it’s confirmed and I don’t know the status if I miss the email. Managing all the docs related to a purchase is also a drag. And every supplier has their own “system” (e.g. “email this person and always CC this address”) and everything is all over the place.
Then you want to add a few more items to an order, then the whole process begins again.
I can say that communication skills are important for me because 85% of our success in the workplace depends on how well we communicate with others and only 15% is based on our professional qualifications.
Switching between browser tabs. I use the trackpad to look for the needed tab when I have a lot of tabs opened. Using a keyboard shortcut makes me zoom out of the task I am doing and it leads to context switching when I see an unrelated tab.
@bchhabra2491 suffered from this too:) Just consider closing the not-need or unurgent tabs. Sometimes I just bookmark a few of them to not lose them and find when needed.
@bchhabra2491 @oksana_ch Not sure if it'd be helpful, but we've been working on a free extension that might help with that.
It's mainly meant for online research, but the basis is that you can make highlights directly on web pages, leave comments, group them around topics and then easily store or share the info.
@sandra_idjoski That sounds great. Have you launched any version? Would love to try.
@bchhabra2491 Yes, here's the link: collabwriting.com/extension
Would love to hear your thoughts on it, if you decide to test it out 😊
@vkhoroshkov I think that sometimes documentation may help with understanding tasks better🤔
@vkhoroshkov Check out Questmate.com, might be exactly what you’re looking for :) Happy to jump on a chat at any time!
Communication. As an autistic person, communication is difficult with neurotypicals. Some sort of AI large language model to proof read my outbound messages would be useful. Same for inbound messages, neurotypicals don’t talk straight, which is confusing. A model to “straightify” a message would be useful too.
@joanfihu Do you have any recommendations or examples for how neurotypicals can communicate in less confusing ways? I would love to learn more about this.
@nrparsons Examples:
NT: Neurotypical
ND: Neurodivergent
At the end of a conversation:
NT: “We should catch up soon.”
ND: “Bye.”
NT doesn’t actually mean to catch up. It’s a formalism.
NT: “You should use a factory model in this test.”
ND: “Change the code and use a factory model.”
NT uses should when it’s a MUST. Perhaps to not offend?
NT: “I can’t come today. I’m not feeling very well”
ND: “I’m not interested. Thanks for letting me know”
90% of the time, NT isn’t unwell. He/she is not interested.
NT: “We will look into your suggestion next quarter.”
ND: “Your suggestion is a bad idea because of X”
95% of the time, NT has not intentions to review that suggestion.
NT: “We need more help with engineering management”
ND: “Do you want to be an engineering manager?”
@joanfihu Thank you so much for taking the time to share these examples. I feel like the cool thing here is that the ND examples you provided are so much better in honesty and integrity, they're a better way to communicate with anyone (i.e. there's no downside to working to communicate more like that, for someone who doesn't already do so). It reminds me of the ideas behind radicalcandor.com, which I aspire to implement in my communication.
Your post here give me a better understanding how these statements of empty politeness/formalism are especially unhelpful for some people (though imho ultimately not good for anyone), and motivates me to keep working on avoiding this kind of stuff. Thank you for your openness in sharing!
analytics skills! If I can quickly get and read the data, then I can make fast and right decisions
If I could schedule the brand media posts with my mind instantly, without waiting for creatives, that would be fun. Seems like Elon problem, hope he fixes it fast. heheh!!
Research and development part. Think about that, I can read 100 academic paper and try their solutions...
It would be phenomenal if we can correctly estimate the good/bad affects of the task on the targeted users, before even starting the task.
@thatswam We have built out a product that can help you organize everything you need in a single workspace accessible by your teams as well. Would you be interested in giving it a try
@thatswam sounds great! We are looking forward to launch it on PH in the next 90 days, would love to give you access to our product today. Please feel free to book a call here - https://calendly.com/sanjaysomas...
Recruiting. We did it via creating RecruiterPM. Thank goodness. Now we hope the industry enjoys~
Always outbound prospecting. Any way I can make reaching out to prospects easier is a YES from me.
@codis_io for some maessages I use pre-made templates (easy to do in Gmail). I modify them a little bit and that's makes it faster to respond to emails or write new ones
Training people not to distract me, Slack, email, text etc so that I can focus.
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