"How can I better share the ideas I reference all the time? Even the one's that aren't mine?"
I asked myself that question and a silly idea popped into my head: write summaries of those videos or blog posts as sonnets. And doing so will highlight what makes them worth sharing.
The first sonnet summary I posted on LinkedIn took off. So here goes nothing. Please enjoy these Sonnet Summaries.
Hear the story of a new stakeholder
Who asks for a seemingly simple tweak
And is answered by a chain of scolders,
Each too siloed to find what they all seek.
The lowest form of DevRel is telling.
Ya gotta start somewhere, so tell me what
Your product does. Please refrain from yelling.
Too many get stuck in the telling rut.
When you hypothesize and then concoct
a product change, ask DevRel if it'll blend.
Does the message change with the medium?
We must ask again: what are we doing?
The theme() function could return us plain lists,
Or 10 preprocess layers for viewing
More divs than should possibly exist.
Conway’s law rules everything around me:
Organizations designing systems
Replicate their communication tree.
Old insights hold true in modern prisms.
Describe software from the stakeholders’ view.
That’s what BDDers do more than they
Automate tests or fix the failing hues.
Forget red to green apples. Thrive in grey.
You need three things to earn coworkers’ trust:
Empathy, logic, Authenticity
Form a stable stool that you can adjust.
But the stool wobbles in toxicity.