Brian Swanick

Hey everyone! I’m on the hunt for my first software engineering role. Currently making some updates to my portfolio to get some projects up and launch the blog as well. If you know of any companies doing any hiring or even any promising collaboration opportunities, pls share! Thx

@nurijanian @sukhindersingh @reidhoffman storytelling with data is excellent. i never fully embraced data viz as a core comp myself but it was a big part of improving how i communicate and make decisions from data, which is probably a core comp for me. Great choice. Highly Tableau-related

@carolinesyrup Is the DuoLingo streak still alive?

My Spanish teacher and I met online in 2019 and have done +500 lessons together since. And this week he got on a plane for the first time and came to visit me in México! 💜

@optemized and line charts

when users ask Notion how offline mode is going twitter.com/asv141/status/…

@_caseygillespie @hdelgado_ox So many. Renteria, fake Alex Rodriguez, Connine & Mordecai were the first. But looking at their 02 team, they had some talent: baseball-reference.com/teams/FLA/2002…

@hdelgado_ox I’ve got big Braden Looper vibes. What say you @EverythingSwan?

@willking @NotionHQ My current use case isn't for services. I was reflecting on the last 8 years of services and how it just wouldn't work at all without some basic recurring tasks. I have a small use-case right now that I'm trying to work around.

@EverythingSwan @NotionHQ Have you checked out ProcessKit? I think it is a perfect tool for service-driven teams.

I love Notion but the lack of recurring tasks make it non-viable as a PM tool. Service-driven teams are built on recurring tasks. Any chance that's in the roadmap @NotionHQ ?

@willking Not a bad idea to drip them out if you can have the robots do that. If it's manual, just publish. But again, very small signals.

@willking Probably not. It may be a small negative signal in the grand scheme of things but it's probably only worth thinking about if you have dodgy link building habits, duped content from other sites, 10,000+ pages, etc.

SEO friends, is there any negatives to publishing a bunch of articles at once vs over a cadence?

I know a few folks followed me from the #Opsy community and my team needs someone opsy on our team: avicado.com/about/careers/… Great team, 4x'd last year, won all the Inc. awards blah blah blah :) It's genuinely a great place to work & grow. DM me with any Q's

It's probably why I appear so productive despite working very reasonable hours. "Don't do things that don't make sense" is a good habit to cultivate.

It really comes down to addressing the bottlenecks to your success. What's holding you back from achieving your full vision? Sometimes it will be sales. Sometimes healthy balance. Sometimes you will need to get opsy and fix broken processes. But do things in the right order.

I won't make it to my next indie anniversary (going in-house, amazing opp) but I'm reflecting on big lessons. Perhaps the biggest: care about things in the right order--when they start to become painful.

@MattTutt1 The Manager's Path has good insights into the differences between mentoring, coaching, & managing individuals and the mindset you should explore. I just got through those sections so it'd be worth a library borrow just to read through the first 80 pages goodreads.com/book/show/3336…

Anyone got any advice for someone (me) who's realised they're actually very bad at being an SEO mentor? I'd like to be better at it and to ensure I'm helping them as best I can - someone that wants to make a decent career as an SEO. Any tips or articles to read on this? 📚

@carolinesyrup "HEY IT'S ME CARO WITH YOUR HOURLY DOSE OF OPERATIONS" - Caro, Jan 13, 2023

Me: My podcast is going to be monthly because I'm not going to overcommit. Also me: But there are so many cool ops folks to talk too! Maybe I should make it biweekly??

Still very appreciative of @carolinesyrup for having me on the Opsy pod. We talked marketing operations (with focus on agency model in second half). I am bullish that ops is still early days for digital marketers. Here's the link: opsy.simplecast.com/episodes/brian…

@carolinesyrup Amazing that we kept it as short as we did! Thanks again!

I invited my favorite marketing ops guy @EverythingSwan on the Opsy.work podcast to talk about this + more, including: ⚡ The industry changes + tooling that led to this shift ⚡ What marketing ops even is + how to break in ⚡ Pros/cons of consulting as an ops pro

Operations folks are famously good generalists - but what's with all these specialized ops roles that are popping up? Marketing ops, design ops, product ops... it seems like every team wants their own dedicated ops person these days. 😎

Hey, it's me talking marketing ops! Which is a thing that exists! Thanks for having me on the pod @carolinesyrup - I've already re-thought through every question you asked me and have different, nuanced answers :)

@carolinesyrup I do it with big life changes. This was the format this year. Start, Stop, Continue fit under short-term objectives. Still shaping the Action Items section with habits/systems I need to form/implement this year so I have to be picky. Vegetables are staying a priority tho 🥦

@EverythingSwan Love it! You're making me want to switch from OKR-y format to a start/stop/continue vibe.

Scenes from a personal, annual retrospective. I believe this fits my criteria of #opsy @carolinesyrup