New school, new team, new job: spend the first week collecting before you start broadcasting.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
Early impressions are formed on very little and they harden fast. In the first week you do not yet know the history or which of the strange arrangements are load-bearing, so anything you broadcast rests on almost no data. What you say early also becomes the version of you that people carry.
Spend the first week asking and listening in a ratio that feels lopsided. Write down what confuses you rather than commenting on it. Your observations will be worth much more in week four, and by then you will have edited half of them.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
In a new place, do you listen first or fill silence?
MORE IN PATIENCE & TIMING
- Try it on a Tuesday afternoon when nothing’s riding on it. Low stakes are where brave learning happens.
- Walking into a new room, the first five minutes are for reading it. Who talks, who listens, who everyone watches.
- Farmers leave fields empty on purpose so they grow better next year. An empty season can be part of the plan.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.