Archive - Marcin Konkel's newsletter

Musings on authenticity, imperfection and phone backgrounds

I find a growing trend in the self-development space about authenticity.

Oct 7 •

July 2024

How labels make you stuck and mess up your development, career or otherwise.

Getting unstuck in a world where everyone needs a single noun to describe themselves.

Jul 10 •

June 2024

What does it mean to do great work?

Musings on the meaning of own satisfaction and exceptional work.

Jun 24 •

May 2024

Cherishing micro-moments - 10 ways how to learn and grow as a Scrum Master or an Agile Coach.

Useful in many other professions too!

May 20 •

April 2024

How staying in the void can help you excel and boost creativity? 💡

Including some life lessons from Miss Lauryn Hill.

Apr 29 •

No such thing as a good idea

Again and again I see companies, leaders think that communicating this great vision will make people follow it.

Apr 22 •

February 2024

Want to break into Scrum Master's role but the job market is rubbish? Do this instead.

🐘First, let’s name two elephants in the room:

Feb 14 •

January 2024

What's next and the secret of Trunyan village.

Last time I wrote, I was in need of some time off to rethink where I was going with this newsletter.

Jan 25 •

#8 We're in 2024

A quick, short (comparably) special episode on wrapping up 2023 and learnings for 2024.

Jan 2 •

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Jarek Nuszczyński

36:24

November 2023

A year of writing roughly every week has passed and what a year it has been.

Nov 21, 2023 •

Let's normalise being unhappy without thinking it’s wrong. Three ways to embrace that.

I’ve recently published another story from my travels in Indonesia.

Nov 5, 2023 •

October 2023

Being a servant leader doesn't mean being spineless or taking on abuse

The “servant” part of “servant leader” is tricky, if not to say, just troublesome.

Oct 23, 2023 •

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