Hindsight Retros Podcast shares retrospectives with people from different walks of life, and highlights lessons on how to use retrospectives to live an ever-improving life. <br/><br/><a href="https://hindsightretros.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">hindsightretros.substack.com</a>
Hindsight Retros Podcast
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Hindsight Retros Podcast shares retrospectives with people from different walks of life, and highlights lessons on how to use retrospectives to live an ever-improving life. <br/><br/><a href="https://hindsightretros.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">hindsightretros.substack.com</a>
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February 15, 2025
Wrapping up the Hindsight Retros Podcast
<p>John and I are wrapping up the Hindsight Retros Podcast, with this episode being a retro on our partnership. We’re incredibly grateful to everyone who’s been a guest on our podcast, and to all of our listeners. While this may be the final episode, the catalog of episodes will be available online for the foreseeable future; feel free to share with your friends. We hope this project sparked new ideas and perspectives on reflecting on your personal experiences with a blameless retro approach.</p><p>Main Takeaways from this Episode</p><p><strong>Start with the End In Mind</strong></p><p>Discuss and document individual and shared goals of a partnership early on and regularly revisit them to ensure alignment. While goals don’t have to be identical, identifying where they overlap or may be in conflict early can prevent later misunderstandings.</p><p>Plan for specific decision points or milestones to reach and agree to discuss the partnership's performance against those milestones. These checkpoints allow for necessary pivots to improve the partnership or signal a need to exit gracefully before becoming trapped in <a target="_blank" href="https://positivepsychology.com/sunk-cost-fallacy/#:~:text=The%20sunk%20cost%20fallacy%20recognizes,Positive%20CBT%20Exercises%20for%20free.">the sunk cost fallacy</a>.</p><p><strong>Communication</strong></p><p>Effective communication is essential for a successful partnership, requiring ongoing effort and openness. Rather than relying solely on goodwill, develop habits to make sure disagreements get surfaced before they fester. For example, make it a habit of asking for difficult feedback periodically, or agree to use a well documented model like <a target="_blank" href="https://www.radicalcandor.com/">Radical Candor</a> or <a target="_blank" href="https://cruciallearning.com/books/crucial-conversations-book/">Crucial Conversations</a>.</p><p>Listen to your feelings; even if things seem on the surface to be going OK, your intuition may be giving you important signals about issues that need to be surfaced. A useful metaphor from lean manufacturing is <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andon_(manufacturing)">the Andon</a> which gives anyone on the team the license to pull a cord to stop production to address an issue.</p><p><strong>Personal Styles</strong></p><p>We all collaborate and communicate differently, and that can lead to challenges or misunderstandings. Although personality frameworks such as <a target="_blank" href="https://www.truecolorsintl.com/">True Colors</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/myers-briggs-overview/">Myers Briggs</a>, or <a target="_blank" href="https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/type-descriptions/">Enneagram</a> have limitations, they can provide a shared framework for fostering mutual understanding and improving teamwork. Talk through preferences and styles early on and create a shared understanding of how you can work best together with others that have different styles.</p><p><strong>The Hindsight Retros Blameless Approach to Retrospectives</strong></p><p>The four questions to ask in any retrospective:</p><p>* What Worked? </p><p>* What Didn’t Work?</p><p>* Where did we get Lucky?</p><p>* What will we do differently next time?</p><p>As you answer these 4 questions adopt these mindsets:</p><p>* <strong>Blameless attitude: </strong>avoid blaming yourself or others for what went poorly as this will create an environment of fear and will close our minds to learning</p><p>* <strong>Systemic Perspective:</strong> consider all contributing factors to the situation when examining what went well or not well. This includes the role of luck or happenstance both positively and negatively</p><p>* <strong>Forward Looking: </strong>use the exercise to look ahead for how the learning applies to future experiences and goals</p><p>* <strong>Growth Mindset: </strong>open your mind to growth and change to maximize lasting improvements to your life</p><p>* <strong>Pattern Matching: </strong>look beyond a single experience and seek patterns in your life that can lead to deeper change for you and your relationships</p><p>Links to resources from the episode</p><p>* On collaboration</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://a.co/d/h703v97">The Book You Were Born to Write</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Quit-Power-Knowing-When-Walk/dp/0593422996">Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Productivity-ebook/dp/B00KWG9M2E">Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Thanks-Feedback-Science-Receiving-Well-ebook/dp/B00DMCV0XE">Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/podcasting/">Podcasting Subreddit</a></p><p>* On our passions</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0078XCQMW/">Several Short Sentences About Writing by Klinkenborg, Verlyn</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJJ68EWPeHs">5 Rules for Good Writing | David Foster Wallace</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/agile-project-management?specialization=google-project-management">Google Project Management Certificate Agile Course</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.headspace.com/">Headspace</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.sketchbook.com/">Sketchbook Drawing App</a></p><p>Contact</p><p>* Follow Sue Lueder on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/suelue/">LinkedIn</a></p><p>* Email <a target="_blank" href="mailto:smlueder@gmail.com">Sue Lueder</a></p><p>* Follow John Reese on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/johntruscottreese/">LinkedIn</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://jjttrr.medium.com">Medium</a></p><p>* Email <a target="_blank" href="mailto:john.reese@gmail.com">John Reese</a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://hindsightretros.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">hindsightretros.substack.com</a>
February 7, 2025
Debugging a Brain
<p><strong>About our Guests</strong></p><p>Jenee Hughes worked at Google as a Site Reliability Engineer for 11 years, where she cut her teeth on the Search SRE team before moving over to Identity SRE. She's currently on a largely-analog sabbatical, dipping her toes back into the world of backyard farming and emergency resilience, while also writing two books, attending various classes, and doing SRE consulting for startups that particularly interest her. She can be found at <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeneehughes/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeneehughes/</a>.</p><p></p><p><strong>Main Takeaways from this Episode</strong></p><p>When dealing with an unknown medical situation, collect documentation of all evidence. Phones make it easy to collect photos and videos with built-in timestamps. Track additional data in spreadsheets, and don’t forget to record the date and time that things happen to your body.</p><p>Advocate for yourself. Medicine is still a developing field; doctors are still learning, and they can make mistakes. And remember that what matters is your body and your health as a whole; the fact that a test comes back saying you don’t have some specific condition doesn’t mean that something else isn’t wrong. Doctors form hypotheses, and then use procedures (e.g. blood draws) to test them. Ask the doctors for insight into the debugging process they’re going through: what’s the hypothesis, and how does the procedure test it?</p><p>Ask your loved ones for help; a support system is essential, whether you have no idea what’s going on and just need help surviving and documenting the condition, or if the condition’s now understood and you’re following a laborious plan of recovery.</p><p>The brain and the body are machines; modern science doesn’t completely understand them, but we’ve learned a whole lot about them. Learning how they work can give you back some power and control when it feels like your body is letting you down. And sharing when you go through something scary can be a service to others; it lets them know these problems are real and, in many cases, can be treated.</p><p></p><p><strong>Functional Neurological Disorder</strong></p><p>The <a target="_blank" href="https://med.stanford.edu/psychiatry/patient_care/fnd.html">Stanford Functional Neurological Disorder page</a> has many interesting videos explaining the disorder and its treatment, and in the process, shedding a lot of light on how the brain works.</p><p>(Some of the videos do not allow direct linking, so in order to make clear which video I’m talking about, I’ll refer to its title and the length, which at least at the moment that I write this are written below each video thumbnail.)</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfLv5jMJlOw">This 53 minute video</a> (“Stanford Health Library: Functional Neurological Disorder with Drs. Lockman and Bullock”) was the one Jenee originally watched; the 4 minute video, “Educational animation of patients and families showing how the brain works in FND and the effects of treatment,” is a more recent creation that’s boiled down to its essence, suitable for communicating not only to people who are affected, but to their family and loved ones.</p><p>The diagnosis process was still brand new at the time Jenee was being diagnosed. Based on feedback from her and others during this time, experts improved the diagnosis process and encapsulated the lessons into the 20 minute video entitled “How to deliver the diagnosis of FND and treatment options utilizing the neuroscience of FND.”</p><p>In Jenee’s words, “If the brain is the computer, FND is a software problem, not a hardware problem. Fixing FND is like fixing the software by using the buggy software.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Epley Maneuver</strong></p><p>The <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epley_maneuver">Epley Maneuver</a> is a way of treating <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benign_paroxysmal_positional_vertigo">benign paroxysmal positional vertigo</a>. John Epley risked his career to publish it in 1979, as described in his <a target="_blank" href="https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/oregon/name/john-epley-obituary?id=14185456&fhid=2246">obituary</a>, and it’s only become widespread in the last twenty years; Jenee speculates this may be because YouTube and other video hosting sites make it easier to demonstrate. Check out <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/01/science/an-easy-fix-for-vertigo.html">this New York Times article</a>.</p><p></p><p><strong>Best Practice Links</strong></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-mortem">Pre-mortem - Wikipedia</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://med.stanford.edu/psychiatry/patient_care/fnd.html">Functional Neurological Disorder Program | Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences | Stanford Medicine</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.wellnessrecoveryactionplan.com/what-is-wrap/">What Is WRAP? - Wellness Recovery Action Plan</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epley_maneuver">Epley maneuver - Wikipedia</a></p><p>Product Links</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Intelligence-Evolution-Breakthroughs/dp/0063286351">A Brief History of Intelligence</a></p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_my_stroke_of_insight">Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight | TED Talk</a></p><p></p><p><strong>Contact</strong></p><p>* Follow us at <a target="_blank" href="http://hindsightretros.substack.com">hindsightretros.substack.com</a></p><p>* Email us at <a target="_blank" href="mailto:feedback@hindsightretros.com">feedback@hindsightretros.com</a></p><p>* Follow us on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/hindsightretros/">Instagram</a></p><p>* Follow Sue Lueder on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/suelue/">LinkedIn</a></p><p>* Follow John Reese on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/johntruscottreese/">LinkedIn</a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://hindsightretros.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">hindsightretros.substack.com</a>
January 24, 2025
Taylor Swift Cinematic Universe
<p>About our Guests</p><p>Nathan Yan is the DJ/event producer at <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/all.your.stupid.friends/">All Your Stupid Friends</a>, a dance party production. He is formerly an engineer at Robinhood and LinkedIn, and currently lives in Silverthorne, Colorado where he plans Taylor Swift parties and spends too much time chasing ski records. You can find him on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/thedustyrover">Instagram</a> or <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nyancat/">LinkedIn</a>.</p><p>Main Takeaways from this Episode</p><p>Niche Communities Online and in the Real World</p><p>Humans are wired for connection. Social media has allowed many to find communities around shared interests, no matter how niche – from spooky lakes to Taylor Swift. Platforms like <a target="_blank" href="http://meetup.com">MeetUp.com</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://facebook.com">Facebook</a>, and others provide ample opportunities to make these connections online.</p><p>Relying exclusively on social media does have limitations. Sociologist and clinical psychologist <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_connected_but_alone">Sherry Turkle</a> warns these tools can fall short of providing the connection we crave. Nathan talks about the crucial moment in his journey when he realized he needed to put down roots in order to have friends and community in the real world. What might have started as a standard trivia night at a local bar evolved into an even deeper connection with a niche community of Taylor Swift fans. This discovery of others who really understand and share our quirks and unusual interests can transform our sense of belonging much more so than vanilla or standard events. In Nathan’s story we see him create this opportunity for his local community, and people like him truly enrich our world by creating these unique and bespoke gatherings.</p><p>Runbooks</p><p>When faced with a complex event or process to execute, many of us at work will rely on runbooks or playbooks to reduce risk of something going wrong. Some key components of a runbook are:</p><p>* Purpose or goals of this event/process</p><p>* Required materials and resources before initiating the event/process</p><p>* Detailed procedures to follow during the event/process</p><p>* Troubleshooting guide in the event something goes awry</p><p>Runbooks provide a valuable framework, allowing us to meticulously plan and document the process while we are calm and collected, minimizing the risk of errors or overlooking important steps during the execution.</p><p>While runbooks can make your event or process more efficient, there is some risk that the spontaneity of the event will suffer. If your event is enlivened by the emergence of fun or creativity in the moment, consider making the runbook a general outline for the experience as opposed to a strict step by step process that cannot be adjusted on the fly.</p><p>Running Retrospectives</p><p>Nathan created a spreadsheet to enter his assessment of each event right after it happened. This allowed him to monitor the history of his events and notice and celebrate the improvements in each event as well his own experience over time. If you have an event or experience that repeats periodically, consider what criteria matters most to you. Here are a few other examples to inspire you:</p><p>* Spring Cleaning:</p><p>* Number of items donated to charity</p><p>* Best cleaning materials</p><p>* Family Teamwork</p><p>* Team Pool Tournament</p><p>* Pre-match pep-talk</p><p>* Skill level matchups</p><p>* Post tournament celebrations</p><p>* Annual Halloween Party</p><p>* Best new decoration</p><p>* Guest favorite spooky appetizer dish</p><p>* Pieces of candy given to trick-or-treaters</p><p>Our insights and observations fade over time, so capturing these ideas immediately following an event provides the greatest opportunity for improvement.</p><p>Product Links</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/06HL4z0CvFAxyc27GXpf02?si=VY5blCfYROuxxj0ELAvTug">Taylor swift albums on Spotify</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://a.co/d/5daapVN">Pink Fuzzy Cat ears</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://a.co/d/5daapVN">Taylor Swift Biography</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://a.co/d/7ykpBbr">Taylor Swift Party Decorations</a></p><p>Contact</p><p>* Follow us at <a target="_blank" href="http://hindsightretros.substack.com">hindsightretros.substack.com</a></p><p>* Email us at <a target="_blank" href="mailto:feedback@hindsightretros.com">feedback@hindsightretros.com</a></p><p>* Follow Sue Lueder on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/suelue/">LinkedIn</a></p><p>* Follow John Reese on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/johntruscottreese/">LinkedIn</a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://hindsightretros.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">hindsightretros.substack.com</a>
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