Archive - Marcin Konkel's newsletter

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. It never works.

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. Taking time without fixed length or constraints was…

Jan 25 •

#8 We're in 2024

A quick, short (comparably) special episode on wrapping up 2023 and learnings for 2024. A big shout out to all you listeners out there for being with us…

Jan 2 •

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Jarek Nuszczyński

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November 2023

A year of writing roughly every week has passed and what a year it has been. I will share a proper recap in some time as I learned a ton during this…

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. 💀 “The Journey of the Soul” tells the story of elaborate Torayan death rituals…

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. Historically, the term meant (according to Oxford dictionary):

Oct 23, 2023 •

There are usually two truths why companies want to go agile 🤥

In almost anything we say, there are two truths: the one we share verbally and the intention behind it. Let me give you an example:

Oct 16, 2023 •

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