Why this page
🧑🏻🤝🧑🏼 A project is just people.
❤️🩹 Most technical problems are caused by people problems.
🐱 One main goal of Zenned is to create a positive environment where people feel free to try their ideas.
Have a vision
💪🏽 Being positive has less to do about seeing the positive, and more about not diminishing it.
🤙🏽 Embrace that every choice will always have a slight drawback.
🤲🏽 The best reference is how you liked it to be if in the other person’s side.
👆🏽 Start deciding on the most important, and decide the details afterwards.
🤏🏽 When something is hard, just do the next micro-action.
🤞🏽 You can’t anticipate many mistakes. Trial and error is paramount.
Real first
👁️ Only debate after everyone has seen the real thing.
🔬 Start with the directly observable behavior.
Qualify your interlocutor
🤝🏽 Think about the deal that benefits both sides.
😇 Focus almost all your efforts on nice and receptive people.
😱 Good ideas also receive initial pushback.
🧠 With nice but non receptive people give a single shortest explanation, and let them sit with it.
🧊 With rude people explain nothing. Say a variant of “no”.
Ritchness comes from differences
👂🏽 Before forming an opinion, listen deeply and discover the underlying motivations.
❓ Rather than statements make naïve questions, suggestions, and options.
🙂↕️ Start with what you can agree with.
Existence is imperfect
🎯 Focus on the desired outcome, rather than what is wrong with the current one.
🟰 Some choices don’t really matter that much.
⚖️ No choice is perfect. They are trade-offs, tied to personal preference.
🧯 Sometimes mistakes are inevitable, the question is acting to solve them.
⌛ A problem is a problem only if it is for the present time.
Write clear
🌟 The purpose of communication is clarity.
💬 Write in a way that sounds natural when read aloud.
🩲 Write in the shortest way that is understandable.
🧑🔬 Use technical jargon or extra words only when it simplifies the message.
🫧 Break elements into the smallest parts.
Error into nice
🤌🏽 Anything that you want to express has a constructive variant.
🙃 Compensate the lack of non verbal cues with politeness and emoji.
🙏🏽 Thank people and say why.
