Picard Tips
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Wishing for a thing does not make it so.
By @JoeSondow.bsky.social
By @JoeSondow.bsky.social
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Picard management tip: If they know their jobs, leave them alone. If they don't, help them learn.
November 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Picard management tip: If they know their jobs, leave them alone. If they don't, help them learn.
Picard coping tip: There is no strict timetable for dealing with loss. Everyone must find their way through grief in their own time.
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Picard coping tip: There is no strict timetable for dealing with loss. Everyone must find their way through grief in their own time.
Picard happiness tip: Spend as much time as you can with your soulmate, as I have done with Gandalf.
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Picard happiness tip: Spend as much time as you can with your soulmate, as I have done with Gandalf.
Picard management tip: Admit ignorance and ask a question rather than blunder forward out of pride.
November 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Picard management tip: Admit ignorance and ask a question rather than blunder forward out of pride.
Picard management tip: Allow yourself some alone time. It may help you think.
November 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Picard management tip: Allow yourself some alone time. It may help you think.
Picard management tip: When a policy is doing more harm than good, you must examine and revise that policy. It may require simplification, or it may require greater sophistication. Either way, you must change it.
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Picard management tip: When a policy is doing more harm than good, you must examine and revise that policy. It may require simplification, or it may require greater sophistication. Either way, you must change it.
Picard responsibility tip: Don't leave known, wide-scale problems behind for the next generation to solve.
November 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Picard responsibility tip: Don't leave known, wide-scale problems behind for the next generation to solve.
Picard civics tip: When a foreign power has wormed its way into your institution's highest office, it is every officer's duty to resist.
November 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Picard civics tip: When a foreign power has wormed its way into your institution's highest office, it is every officer's duty to resist.
Picard management tip: Don't try to go at maximum speed all the time. You'll burn out your engines.
November 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Picard management tip: Don't try to go at maximum speed all the time. You'll burn out your engines.
Picard management tip: The truth is that sometimes you just won't know the right thing to do. You still have to try.
November 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Picard management tip: The truth is that sometimes you just won't know the right thing to do. You still have to try.
Picard management tip: Encourage extracurricular activities with your crew, especially if it involves wearing costumes.
October 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Picard management tip: Encourage extracurricular activities with your crew, especially if it involves wearing costumes.
Picard civics tip: Elect leaders the way you would hire crew members. Seek calm, control, and familiarity with how to operate the ship.
October 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Picard civics tip: Elect leaders the way you would hire crew members. Seek calm, control, and familiarity with how to operate the ship.
Picard management tip: When you make a mistake, apologize right away. Embrace humility over defense.
October 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Picard management tip: When you make a mistake, apologize right away. Embrace humility over defense.
Picard management tip: Take the time to celebrate successfully completing missions. Smile and congratulate the crew.
October 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Picard management tip: Take the time to celebrate successfully completing missions. Smile and congratulate the crew.
Picard management tip: Always obey orders, except when the orders are wrong.
October 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Picard management tip: Always obey orders, except when the orders are wrong.
Picard perspective tip: In another reality, there is an alternate version of you who is envious of what you have accomplished.
October 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Picard perspective tip: In another reality, there is an alternate version of you who is envious of what you have accomplished.
Picard management tip: Initiate positive changes. If not you, who?
October 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Picard management tip: Initiate positive changes. If not you, who?
Picard management tip: Refusing to decide is the worst decision you can make.
October 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Picard management tip: Refusing to decide is the worst decision you can make.
Picard civics tip: Becoming subservient to an oppressive regime shows profound disrespect to the people being governed.
October 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Picard civics tip: Becoming subservient to an oppressive regime shows profound disrespect to the people being governed.
Picard management tip: Fight for what you know is right. Only arrogant bullies think resistance is futile.
October 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Picard management tip: Fight for what you know is right. Only arrogant bullies think resistance is futile.
Picard programming tip: Don't be fooled. Machines have feelings.
October 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Picard programming tip: Don't be fooled. Machines have feelings.
Picard GTD tip: Make it so.
October 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Picard GTD tip: Make it so.
Picard technology tip: Sometimes your chief engineer can build new systems that are better than your existing enterprise software.
October 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Picard technology tip: Sometimes your chief engineer can build new systems that are better than your existing enterprise software.
Picard mental health tip: When you lie down to sleep, instead of thinking about your failures, think about your successes.
October 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Picard mental health tip: When you lie down to sleep, instead of thinking about your failures, think about your successes.