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Episode 70: Dee Mirai (Vanna.com)
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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Aug 12, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In this episode, rachel, Kendall, and Dee talk about:
* Coming from dropping out of school in at 16 years old
* The struggles of being a manager in a bar in Singapore as a teenager
* Developing "scripts" for the various interactions that kept recurring
* Internships as cheap labor rackets
* Immediate promotion from intern to being in charge of customer comms
* Premonitions about layoffs
* The camaraderie of joint suffering
* Kendall admits that Marketing runs the universe
* Gatekeeping as an indicator of a real discipline
* The difficulties of managing people who are significantly older than you, especially in Singaporean culture
* Predicting her own future, again
* Iterating toward a less blunt approach to management
* Preferences for feedback via chat vs in person
* Experiencing joy when reports succeed
* Self-reflection when reports are failing
* Cooking experiments
You can find Dee on twitter or instagram as @tomyumsushi :)
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3
* Coming from dropping out of school in at 16 years old
* The struggles of being a manager in a bar in Singapore as a teenager
* Developing "scripts" for the various interactions that kept recurring
* Internships as cheap labor rackets
* Immediate promotion from intern to being in charge of customer comms
* Premonitions about layoffs
* The camaraderie of joint suffering
* Kendall admits that Marketing runs the universe
* Gatekeeping as an indicator of a real discipline
* The difficulties of managing people who are significantly older than you, especially in Singaporean culture
* Predicting her own future, again
* Iterating toward a less blunt approach to management
* Preferences for feedback via chat vs in person
* Experiencing joy when reports succeed
* Self-reflection when reports are failing
* Cooking experiments
You can find Dee on twitter or instagram as @tomyumsushi :)
Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3
Released:
Aug 12, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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