I feel like many of my best bits of writing in recent years have been O Bar-related. That really says something. To be fair, it's not like I can write anything elaborately elegant about the mundanity of my day-to-day life. But I get lucky here and there when I feel particularly passionate about something or maybe even inspired. But that's just how writing is in general, right?
And writing yesterday's post felt really good. End-of-the-year feels, I tell you.
Anyway, work has been a lot this week. I always feel extra drained when I have to conduct interviews and I've conducted at least one 60-90-minute interview every day for the past few days. The interviews are longer for good reason, but it still takes a lot out of me to get through them. I remind myself that I need to maintain a genuine interest in learning more about them as this is one of the few touchpoints we'll have with them before we hire any of them. Then that becomes a whole other ballgame as we experience what it's like to work with them for real.
On that note, I'm feeling more and more conflicted about a lot of the work-related books I've been reading. I've been trying to focus on topics related to performance and drive and it's hard to figure out what I want to apply to work and how exactly I can do that. A lot of these books can get pretty heavy on the theory and principles driving their thesis but sort of fade off when it comes to practical ways to put their ideas into action.
I've been trying to map out a longer LinkedIn Article to talk about that sort of thing soon...but it's not as easy as writing about O Bar, obviously. 🙃
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