Field reports from the universe of Manager OTG. Glossaries, short stories, annotated screenshots, taxonomies of meetings.
Manager OTG sent the invite at 9:43 PM. It had a PowerPoint attachment titled "AGENDA v1" that said "TITLE HERE." The offsite is in six days. You have not booked a flight.
She migrated it from Google Sheets to Confluence to Notion to Linear. She ran the April launch from a Notion war room doc while he was in Phoenix. He sent a 🙏 each time.
Teal for external. Purple for internal. Orange for "Focus Time." A taxonomy of the blocks your manager asked you to respect — and what they actually mean.
Manager OTG sent an all-company email Thursday at 3:47 PM. The effective date was "[date TBD]." Nobody replied to point that out.
He rated himself 5 out of 5 on Communication. He uses a mouse jiggler. Greg rated him 3 out of 5 and left the comments field blank.
Q3 priorities. Six bullets. No follow-up. Kyle replied in 42 seconds. Greg's 👍 is below the fold.
A profile of the IC who fixed the pipeline, never misses a deadline, and has had his 1:1 rescheduled eleven times.
A line-by-line reading of the most aggressive auto-reply in your inbox.
Circle back. Take this offline. Ping me. What he thinks they mean, and what they actually mean.
An archaeological survey of the dead channels in your sidebar.
53 minutes. 47-slide deck. One new initiative name. Zero decisions.
The gap between the red dot and the green dot.
The quick sync. The standup-that's-a-meeting. The alignment touch-base. And the org-change email.