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
⚖️ Acknowledge that every choice has drawbacks, and not every drawback is bad.
🤲🏽 Start with what you liked to receive yourself if in the other person’s side.
🤏🏽 Defeat any difficulty by making small decisions.
👆🏽 Start deciding on the most important.
🤞🏽 You can’t anticipate many mistakes. Instead correct the wrong choices later on, when proved wrong.
Real first
👁️ Only debate after everyone has seen the real thing.
🔬 Start with the facts.
Qualify your interlocutor
😇 Only engage with nice and receptive people.
🤝🏽 Think about the deal that benefits both sides.
😱 Pushback may signal that your approach is better than expected.
Ritchness comes from differences
👂🏽 Listen first, judge later.
🙂↕️ Start with what you can agree with.
☝🏽 Make suggestions and give options, instead of commands.
❓ Ask questions more than making statements.
🧠 Opinions are just brainstorming.
Existence is imperfect
🟰 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.
🎯 Focus on the desired outcome, rather than what is wrong with the current one.
⌛ 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.