The four heights
The same task, four distances: today's deadline, the next reviewer, the stuck moment, the pattern.
Execute — do the immediate task
+Star the repository myteam/cli-tool so our PMs can quickly find it from their dashboard and track…
Execute — do the immediate task
+Star the repository myteam/cli-tool so our PMs can quickly find it from their dashboard and track its visibility metrics. Confirm the star is on my personal account jessica.dev and return a quick note if it was already starred.
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Improve — make it easier to accept
+Before I star myteam/cli-tool to signal interest to the maintainer, make the action meaningful:…
Improve — make it easier to accept
+Before I star myteam/cli-tool to signal interest to the maintainer, make the action meaningful: check if I already starred it, show recent release notes and open issues that justify the star, and surface whether other product managers in my org have starred it. If there’s a duplicate or organizational account, warn me.
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Decide — diagnose the stuck moment
+I clicked star on my personal account jessica.dev for myteam/cli-tool and the UI still shows…
Decide — diagnose the stuck moment
+I tried to star a repo but the button didn’t change
I clicked star on my personal account jessica.dev for myteam/cli-tool and the UI still shows unstarred. I’m not sure if the action failed, if I’m signed into a different account, or if there’s a permissions problem. Which checks should I run now to confirm I’ve starred the repo and to fix the account mismatch if needed?
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Become — change the pattern
+Our team stars are inconsistent: PMs, engineers, and security give stars without any record, so we…
Become — change the pattern
+we lose track of which team members endorsed projects
Our team stars are inconsistent: PMs, engineers, and security give stars without any record, so we can’t tell which projects the company is tracking. What habit or small policy would get us a reliable signal of who in the org has endorsed a repo and why, without adding heavy process?
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