Rather than assuming young workers are antisocial or unfriendly, consider why they might find it difficult to interact with others and help them figure out what would make it easier. If they seem overly sensitive, explore why this might be, rather than judging them.

Create space for conversation

Gen Z has been raised in a world of asynchronous communication—texts, DMs, emails, as well as Zoom meetings where they can turn off their video and audio, and participation is often optional. Forget about telling these employees you have an open-door policy; they won’t walk through it. Instead, leaders may need to create intentional, low-pressure spaces for conversation.

Encourage socialization

Your role as a leader isn’t just to manage their work—it’s to introduce them to workplace culture. Do you provide opportunities for socialization? Maybe it’s Cornhole Fridays, a bowling league or a team lunch. Better yet, ask them what they want. Identify your most outgoing employees and form a culture committee. Make socialization part of onboarding, not an afterthought.

Create a formal development plan

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Summary of how to work with regular expressions in Python. Compares Python with Perl and points out some gotchas.

I started monthly sketchnote meetups at my new job after giving a sketchnote workshop there last month. We had our first meetup yesterday and talked about how to add simple cartoons to sketchnotes. I made a one-page reference to guide the meetup. Of course lots of inspiration from Bruce Blitz and Jack Hamm. #sketchnote

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Did you know that you can make homemade sorbet with just one ingredient? All you need are some melons! This melon sorbet is easy to make, sweet and refreshing.

• Let melons thaw for 10 minutes. Puree the melon in a food processor. Add sweetener if desired (maple syrup).

The one skill that separates senior engineers from everyone else isn’t technical. It’s the ability to take ambiguous problems and make them concrete.

Senior engineers look at the big, messy, abstract thing and start digging:

• They ask questions nobody else thought to ask.
• They separate what matters from noise.
• They identify what should be done now vs. what to punt.

All you need to do is combine shredded cabbage with some salt and pack it into a container. The cabbage releases liquid, creating its own brining solution. Submerged in this liquid for a period of several days or weeks, the cabbage slowly ferments into the crunchy, sour condiment we know and love as sauerkraut.

In this video, I break down the basics of online writing. It’s the most distilled version of everything I teach in Write of Passage.

You can find notes from the workshop here: https://www.notion.so/bronsonchang/David-Perell-How-to-Write-Online-Workshop-2021-02-10-6cfaff84afd84b6592db2eb4461b3e40

I talk about:
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How to build an audience of like-minded people

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New technologies to electrocute rats and render them infertile have had mixed results. City says food scraps remain a problem.

He said even the Smart Boxes that electrocute rats, which can cost $300 each per month, are more useful at showing where nests are concentrated than as actual population control, making education and prevention more important.

Some sentences just sound awkward. In order to ensure clarity, writers need to consider more than just grammar: weight is equally important. In the following extract from Making Sense, acclaimed linguist David Crystal shows how sentence length (and weight) affects writing quality.

In speech, if a subject goes on for too long, listener frustration starts to build up, as it’s difficult to retain all the information without knowing what’s going to be done with it:

My supporters in the party, who have been behind me from the very outset of this campaign, and who know very well that the country is also behind me …

We urgently need a verb! It’s a problem that can present itself in writing too, as when we read a slowly scrolling news headline on our television screen that begins like this:

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