Naidoo Notes

Living at the Edge of your Comfort Zone: How to Identify Local Maxima in Your Career

“Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.” — Bruce Lee — Tim Ferriss (@tferriss) November 11, 2020 Recently, I've been reflecting mainly on three things: 1. Understanding my "Circle of Competence" (as Warren Buffet describes it) - what am

March 31, 2023 - 4 min read

Perfection by Subtraction: An operational playbook to identify flawed systems in your company (and life)

Let's add this tool. Let's add this process. Let's add this meeting. Let's hire more people. Let's add this department. Add. Add. Add. Sounds familiar? I've found that as startups grow they become bloated and inefficient if all the "adding" is left unchecked. All this adding without any subtraction increases

February 05, 2023 - 5 min read

ChatGPT is a Glorified Summarizer - Here's Why

Over the past few weeks, unless you've been living under a rock, you might have noticed people across Twitter and other social media talking about the new AI chatbot, ChatGPT, which was released by OpenAI a few weeks ago. In the short time it's been out, millions of people have

December 16, 2022 - 3 min read

Using a Responsibility Knowledge Base to Manage Cognitive Load in Your Team

Cognitive overload is a state of mind where team members are so overloaded with cognitive tasks that they cannot complete them effectively

October 08, 2022 - 4 min read

Building Resilience & Psychological Safety in Engineering Teams

💡This post is adapted from a conference talk that I've given multiple times, originally at the 0111 CTO Conference in San Diego, California in 2021. It's been revised and updated many times - this is the latest version which I keep up to date. Being an engineer for the last

March 21, 2022 - 12 min read