Natalie Demblon

If this is a free trial of winter, I don't want it! ☁️🌧️🌩️

@miles_commodore Including Murder She Wrote!

Jerry Orbach was very underrated. He was good in any role. He passed away in 2004.

I can't believe it's 2025 and rewinding is still painful 😭

@clairevo Subscribed!

New goal: First gal to crack the top 10 tech pods 💅

This reminds me of one of the funniest things I've ever read: A lot of fundamental biomedical science is done using animal models. I once had a HoD call by my office waving the latest cover of a leading science journal exclaiming, 'Look Mark, another great advance for mousekind!'

Tonight, I watch Runaway Jury.

@stojmarina I think a part of it is a fear that they'll land up delivering less. Especially amongst an ambitious group of people. Just a theory of course ☺️

@NDemblon What’s in your experience the reason for such resistance ?

This is what happens when everything is marked as high priority. Stakeholders feel reassured seeing their features “In Progress,” but the truth? Nobody wins. Nothing gets finished, and progress stalls.

@randomrecruiter I'd rather be unhappy for the rest of my life, than do this to get a better job 🤣

“And then I told them, make the candidates re-enter their work history after applying with their resume!”

@PAGEawards 😂

@Kimmy_Coleen Google! (I can't wait until I don't have to work with MS anymore). The reason is Search. It's woeful in MS.

What do you prefer? a) Microsoft Office (Excel, Work etc.) b) Google Workspace (Sheet, Doc etc.) And why?

@themgmtconsult I like his posts about his kids though :-)

@NDemblon At this point, 90% of what I read from Paul G is, in my humble opinion, either a wild simplification or a mad fallacy.

He is - once again - so wrong. Like in business, you might dislike the person but always remember you don't have to marry them. You simply need to have them do the right thing for you - focus on their policies, on what they did/going to do. Focus on ideas, not personality traits. Don't go ad hominem, but think through the argument.

@Kimmy_Coleen b) sometimes.

How often do you use ChatGPT at your work? a) never b) sometimes c) almost daily d) every day

@notgwendalupe This is the first time I was brave enough to watch it 🤣

the scene where anjelica huston takes off her mask in 'the witches' is forever engraved in my mind

@JustAnotherPM Yes definitely! The best engineers I've worked with want to come to client/customer calls This helps determine feasibility very early plus means they contribute very meaningfully to writing up the user stories.

Product managers -- be honest. Do you really "involve engineers early?"

I seriously doubt that 🤣

@DanielleNicki Nope. Nope. And nope. My brain can't take it 🤯

1995 was almost 30 years ago, not “about 10 or 15” years ago as I’ve said out loud a few times. Just thought I’d share that.

@themgmtconsult This story made me laugh 😆 I'm definitely like your wife (I look for the rules), but I like to have a few "opportunists" in my life that I can leverage to break the rules 😆

Let me tell you a story of how two different brains work... My wife and I drove 1.5 hours to visit School A, a potential choice for our daughter next year. School A was quick to set up a tour, so everything went smoothly there. 3 minutes drive from School A is School B, which we were also interested in. Unlike School A, getting in touch with School B was a struggle: we tried for 3 days to arrange a visit, only to be told "We'll have the right person call you back." Needless to say... that call never came. Now, since School A and B are both 1.5 hours from where we currently live, I wanted to make the most of our trip. So I said to my wife: "Let’s just go to School B and see if someone can show us around." My wife was furious 🤯🤯🤯 She insisted they would call back, that we couldn not just show up and expect them to drop everything for us. She even called me 'arrogant' for thinking I could just walk in and get their time on the spot!! WTF! But I think the key of what happened is that our "problem-solving" approaches differ fundamentally... My wife looks for rules. She asks: "What's the proper way to handle this?" I, on the other hand, look for opportunities. I ask: "How can I influence people to make this work?" I don't know which approach is "better" or more effective, but what I know is that, after much discussion, we eventually showed up at School B and ended up getting a tour from the principal right then and there! MORAL There's more than one way to solve a problem but, sometimes, you've got to take a chance and step outside the rules to get what you need. This is a true story! And do you think I got the right moral out of it?

@BarristerSecret Why do people have such a problem with this concept? 🤦🏻‍♀️

Easily. Because we don’t judge our clients. Like doctors, we just help the person in front of us, no matter what they might have done. That’s the job. That’s what keeps the rule of law alive. That’s what sets us apart from the politicians who denigrate us for cheap clicks.