# Know your altitude Created On: 08-18-2022 08:31 Up:: [[Productivity MOC]] Tags:: #note/seed🌱 Topics:: Related:: --- * Think about your day as measured by an altimeter, a device that measures altitude, often found in planes. * Our current altitude dictates the *level of work* you're doing in a given day, which results in tiered/distinct outcomes and impacts at each altitude - where we're flying. * Most critically: the way in which we're changing our altitude, especially intraday, dictates whether we'll realize, whether tangibly or even at differing levels of quality, those tiered/distinct outcomes and impacts at each altitude. * Additionally, frequently shifting altitudes burns fuel, or in our case, **energy** * Current altitudes at [[01 Ibotta]]: * Director - Strategic work and thought that serves the greater engineering organization, such as paved roads, education and training, etc. * Group - Director of the Purchases Platform Group * Squad - Engineering Manager of the Product Data Quality Squad * Questions to ask: * What is your current altitude? * How does that change intraday? * Are you diving and rising numerous times? * How does this affect your delivery, even in terms of quality? * Where do you want it to be? * How do you get there? * How do you keep it steady there? * Know where you're flying currently and where you want to fly. --- ## References 1. [[Steve Konieczka]] once used the "altitude" to correlate our differing role responsibilities and their execution at varying levels - he was really the inspiration of this idea.