{"id":12474,"date":"2019-11-21T13:24:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T17:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=12474"},"modified":"2019-11-21T17:38:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T21:38:49","slug":"seeing-email-subject-lines-as-if-they-were-your-attempt-to-document-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/seeing-email-subject-lines-as-if-they-were-your-attempt-to-document-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Email Subject Lines as If They Were Your Attempt to Document Code and Street Smart Work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
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Problem: new founders and pre Entrepreneurs will email once and then give up<\/div>\n
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Counterintuitive but true = Sending 10-15 email updates is not spamming. It\u2019s an avalanche of documentation. <\/div>\n
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There are fans of this type of hustle. There are critics and detractors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/span><\/td>\nNick Spiller (@Nick_Spiller<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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5\/27\/12, 1:32 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
\u2066\u202a@ntippmann\u202c\u2069<\/a> you are not a fan. You are on the team. You’re my midwest scout. Need the updates like a FedEx Package like \u2066\u202a@LarryChiang\u202c\u2069<\/a> says<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\nSo Nick Spiller brings up an important point that I bring up over and over. Can you update your complex work progress at least as effectively as the rudimentary protocol for tracking an envelope?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I wrote an article called, *What a CS Major CEO Can Learn from a FedEx Package*. It\u2019s in my, \u201cWhat They Dont Teach You At Stanford Business School\u201d blog <\/span><\/div>\n

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<\/span><\/td>\nLarry Chiang @duck9 (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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11\/21\/19, 9:52 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
What a CS Major CEO Can Learn from a FedEx Package | \u201cWhat They Dont Teach You At Stanford Business School\u201d \u2026tstanfordbusinessschool.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/28\/wha\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Conceptualizing. And taking paper notes that are a diagram that spiders into dozens of emails. 
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\n#cs183larrychiang is about hiding the hard inquiry. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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>> Life hacking. <\/p>\n

Seeing email subject lines as if they were your attempt to document code<\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/td>\nLarry Chiang @duck9 (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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11\/21\/19, 9:32 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
>> Life hacking. <\/p>\n

Seeing email subject lines as if they were your attempt to document code
\n#cs183email<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/MxinaYkleZ<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nConceptualizing and know that taking paper notes helps to diagram. This then spiders into dozens of emails. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Set your smartphone down if you\u2019d like to execute <\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span><\/td>\nLarry Chiang @duck9 (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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3\/20\/19, 2:17 PM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
4\/ Your smartphone is a terrible opiate. <\/p>\n

If you\u2019re in the room, be in the room. Your iPhone teleports you somewhere else. Working the room is a process of grinding and grinding. Opium won\u2019t ease the difficulty of attempting an at-bat<\/p>\n

Put the phone down and use #cs183paper<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Kx8tu6b5uw<\/a><\/p>\n

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By Larry Chiang Problem: new founders and pre Entrepreneurs will email once and then give up Counterintuitive but true = Sending 10-15 email updates is not spamming. It\u2019s an avalanche of documentation.  There are fans of this type of hustle. There are critics and detractors.  Nick Spiller (@Nick_Spiller) 5\/27\/12, 1:32 AM \u2066\u202a@ntippmann\u202c\u2069 you are not a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-engineering"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}