Terry Cabeen’s Post

Do you know what's more rewarding than managing a team of amazing human beings who just want to do good work and live rewarding lives?

In my team 1:1s this week, I covered maintaining a Personal Successes document, but the secret is: it was all about Results. Here is my recommendation for the rest of you: 🌟 Create (or rediscover) your own personal successes document. Put it on your work machine for convenience or a personal notebook or device for security. It is yours, so do what works for you. 🌟 Book half an hour on your calendar every week for yourself. Make a nice tea or light a candle. Do something to signify the intention you’re about to put into yourself. Book it for a time that is consistently good for reflection. 🌟 Create research tools and use them. Check your Git history, Jira tickets, Slack contributions, and anywhere else that you provide value to your company, your peers, and your clients. 🌟 Run all these searches each week and make note of the highlights. And when you do: QUANTIFY EVERYTHING. Adam’s cheat-sheet here is an excellent guide to doing that. Use it, in the moment, each week, to capture the value you provide. Career building is about results, and you need to do your own PR.

I've head that "social media" is behind a great many struggles of the modern era. At a talk last night, "the speed of change" and "overexposure" both came up before "social media," but it was still on the list. I'm here to tell you that social media, as it stands today, isn't new. It's another outcome of the speed of change and overexposure. People have been talking crap about one another for many centuries. And they've been doing it in the written form. On a medium that others can see, from clay tablets to newspapers to blogs. SOURCE: https://lnkd.in/gRNab-78 Quit blaming social media for things. It is merely a broadcast concept that enables people to be turds on a grander scale with a larger audience. Solve it or accept it. (But, to be clear, keep holding people accountable for being turds.) I don't know why this complaint grinds my gears so. Perhaps because focusing on the wrong cause makes solving the problem that much more complex.

If you go to someone's LinkedIn page to block them, will they see that you checked the page? I'm not asking for anyone who cares. Blocking is the real self-care.

It’s been a couple months, and I should catch y’all up on some big news. It works out that I waited, though, because some was embargoed until this week. Vague-posting is annoying, but we’ll have none of it today! I was most recently the CTO for Butterflye Solutions. I led the design, copywriting, and branding efforts for the startup as well as helped guide the release of the V2 product. Through those efforts (and some exceptional presentation skills), I helped Butterflye enter the chrysalis of Techstars Boulder. (You may have also heard this is their final Boulder cohort, but we learned that news at the same time as you.) Butterflye was accepted prior to the V2 launch, and we were told that it was on the merits of the team (not the product lol), so I am especially proud of my contribution. The product is pretty terrific now, as well, and I’m proud of my contribution to that, too! Their runway has been extended, but I will not be joining them on the next leg of the journey. It felt great to go out on a high note before starting a new role with more focus, a narrower scope, and cleaner boundaries. I’m beyond stoked to announce that I am managing the exceptional Data Engineering team at EnergyHub. While this is an all-new company for me, I feel like I’m very much on familiar turf. I bring over 20 years of Data Engineering experience to the team. I’m coming in with prior Engineering Manager experience as well. And beyond that, I spent 7 years in the energy industry through ABB -> Hitachi ABB Power Grids -> Hitachi Energy. I’m able to leverage my knowledge of the North American energy market while learning about a niche of the industry that I didn’t get exposed to in my prior work. Leveraging device-level connectivity to help manage power utilization lowers energy cost while enabling more broad adoption of renewables. It’s as feel-good of a job as I’ve ever had. My team is incredible. Our collaborators within the company are absolutely awesome. Our brand is a powerhouse in the industry, and we will only get stronger as we grow. Butterflye is an awesome team as well, and I wish them every success through Techstars and beyond. They are solving a real problem in communication: cutting down noise. Reach out to James Palmer, their new head of sales. He’s a phenomenal human who can help you navigate the myriad complexities of client-facing communications. Shout out to my co-founders James Martin and Tony Macias 🦋 as well. Finally, an outpouring of love to Akshay Gupta, who I was grateful and honored to work with for a time. Absolute powerhouses, all. As an individual, you can connect with EnergyHub indirectly! If you have a smart thermostat or an EV, join your utility’s cost-savings programs to manage those devices. In the process, you’ll be making the planet a slightly more habitable place for the long term. Furthermore, a well-managed grid provides stability and reliability, which benefits us all. Onward!

Friends, I got a preview of this book, and I am here to tell you this: As a huge fan of Eryc as a human, leader, and speaker, I had very high expectations for his first publication. And he more than came through. You’ve read a lot of books on leadership already, and you know the rote procedural aspects of doing it, but none of those things drive true engagement. Eryc reaches through to the hearts of your employees and walks you gaining a deeper understanding of true engagement. He writes like he speaks, with heart, wit, and a cheeky grin. Check out his book while we eagerly await his next… (Phenomenal work as expected, Eryc!)

Honz carries my strongest possible recommendation. They are an outstanding teammate and an inspired developer.

Super proud to work with James! Keep an eye on that company of his… great things continue!