Hey Tuan, I have been your reader for awhile but never commented before. I recently saw this newsletter and I just wanted to reach out for a minor comment, regarding the title of your notes vs the actual content.
In your #79 note's title, the word "Expendable" was mentioned, and that's the same spelling as "The Expendables" movie franchise that you quote. However, you later used the spelling "Expandable" when referring to the movies, and continued to use the word expand/expandable to deliver the points that a PM should always be ready to widening their horizon and learnings.
Expendable and Expandable might look similar but have very different meaning. Expendable is being able to expend, to be consumed down, might be single-use, of little importance and therefore can be abandoned. I clicked to read your note to understand further as Being "The Expendables" in PM is actually very intriguing, it almost sounded like you might be hinting at the imminent layoff at Shopee.
The movie franchises used the word Expendable, that probably was because of group of ex-elite soldiers are like pawns in dangerous operations and missions, they get hired for dangerous jobs which also means they can get abandoned or killed if the mission is unsuccessful.
Just wanted to reach out to clarify so that you know there's someone reading your content. Hope you're not disheartened by this. You're doing a wonderful job maintaining this Newsletter and a full time job. It's really up to you to edit the note or keep as it is.
I'm not disheartened by this. On the contrary, I was over the moon to receive this comment. I pulled my hair so hard on the day I realized I made this rookie mistake (you can find my correction in the footnote of the post). Part of me still hasn't forgiven myself for confusing the reader just because of a simple word. So when I found someone so devoted to writing this long comment about that exact mistakes, I know you care about it as much as I do.
I think my thought process went like this:
1) I thought of PM as people who take on different challenges every day/week/year
2) Oh, that sounds like mercenaries.
3) Oh, there's a great movie about mercenaries called "The Expendables". I should write about that as an analogy to PM
4) To be mercenaries, PM must expand their skills --> they must be expandable
5) Oh, that sounds like the movie's name, what a brilliant discovery! (this is exactly the part where I completely forgot about the original name of the movie and think everything is "Expandables" now)
Haha, it's a fun experience to write down the thought process :)
What I want to emphasize, btw, is that I am by no means hinting about the imminent layoff at Shopee. The current situation around here doesn't affect my mentality when writing this post.
I really truly greatly appreciate your time reading till here and your effort to correct me.
My pleasure to have you as my reader. Cheers mate!
Hey Tuan, I have been your reader for awhile but never commented before. I recently saw this newsletter and I just wanted to reach out for a minor comment, regarding the title of your notes vs the actual content.
In your #79 note's title, the word "Expendable" was mentioned, and that's the same spelling as "The Expendables" movie franchise that you quote. However, you later used the spelling "Expandable" when referring to the movies, and continued to use the word expand/expandable to deliver the points that a PM should always be ready to widening their horizon and learnings.
Expendable and Expandable might look similar but have very different meaning. Expendable is being able to expend, to be consumed down, might be single-use, of little importance and therefore can be abandoned. I clicked to read your note to understand further as Being "The Expendables" in PM is actually very intriguing, it almost sounded like you might be hinting at the imminent layoff at Shopee.
The movie franchises used the word Expendable, that probably was because of group of ex-elite soldiers are like pawns in dangerous operations and missions, they get hired for dangerous jobs which also means they can get abandoned or killed if the mission is unsuccessful.
Just wanted to reach out to clarify so that you know there's someone reading your content. Hope you're not disheartened by this. You're doing a wonderful job maintaining this Newsletter and a full time job. It's really up to you to edit the note or keep as it is.
Thanks!
Hi Anony!
I'm not disheartened by this. On the contrary, I was over the moon to receive this comment. I pulled my hair so hard on the day I realized I made this rookie mistake (you can find my correction in the footnote of the post). Part of me still hasn't forgiven myself for confusing the reader just because of a simple word. So when I found someone so devoted to writing this long comment about that exact mistakes, I know you care about it as much as I do.
I think my thought process went like this:
1) I thought of PM as people who take on different challenges every day/week/year
2) Oh, that sounds like mercenaries.
3) Oh, there's a great movie about mercenaries called "The Expendables". I should write about that as an analogy to PM
4) To be mercenaries, PM must expand their skills --> they must be expandable
5) Oh, that sounds like the movie's name, what a brilliant discovery! (this is exactly the part where I completely forgot about the original name of the movie and think everything is "Expandables" now)
Haha, it's a fun experience to write down the thought process :)
What I want to emphasize, btw, is that I am by no means hinting about the imminent layoff at Shopee. The current situation around here doesn't affect my mentality when writing this post.
I really truly greatly appreciate your time reading till here and your effort to correct me.
My pleasure to have you as my reader. Cheers mate!