Love #5. At Palantir we called this NACK, as in "Please NACK this by 5pm" and implied if you didn't get a response you were going to move forward. (This was in contrast to requesting an ACK, or affirmative thumbs up.)
This is spot on @Wes Kao - 'ASAP' is often just anxiety disguised as a deadline.
I’d love to hear your take on the flip side please. When a project is truly on fire, how do you signal 'emergency' without sliding into high-strung language? How do you keep the intensity high but the stress low?
Love #5. At Palantir we called this NACK, as in "Please NACK this by 5pm" and implied if you didn't get a response you were going to move forward. (This was in contrast to requesting an ACK, or affirmative thumbs up.)
Time perception is hard. I always struggle with the ASAP as well. Does it mean over what I'm doing now? I mean after it?
To me, "I need X today by EOW." is a bit confusing. Do you need X today or by EOW?
That was a typo! I meant “I need X by EOW.” Fixed it in the post. Thanks for catching that, Andrew.
This is spot on @Wes Kao - 'ASAP' is often just anxiety disguised as a deadline.
I’d love to hear your take on the flip side please. When a project is truly on fire, how do you signal 'emergency' without sliding into high-strung language? How do you keep the intensity high but the stress low?