This seems very 2010 and like so much effort. I guess I see some value if you’re working remotely and there’s little way for co-workers to get to know you on a more personal level, but this feels very much like a solution looking for a problem that doesn’t actually exist.
Here’s a bit more on why I see Candor and other approaches like it as having value.
I find that a LinkedIn profile provides not much of a sense of a person’s interests, and for those you work with only sporadically or in a limited way, it can be nice to have a way to get to know what that person is all about - beyond their technical skills or official function. This is why some teams have started making “user manuals” about each team member, to help people get to know one another. But many people don’t have an easy way to do that, or it’s just a google doc or something clunky.
My sense is that many work interactions are superficial partly because people don’t actually know much about one another, and given that many people don’t have their own extensive personal websites, it seems to me Candor fills a useful gap.
It’s actually not much effort - you pick some questions to answer and share a few of your few favorites and in 10 or 15 minutes you’ve got a little guide to some of what interests you that provides a peek into who you are for team members or other people you meet with. Anyway, that’s my take.
Nice post, however I agree with Craig’s comment. This is a busy, text heavy solution that requires the user to manually trawl through content. LinkedIn’s limitations are by design - it focuses on key attributes of a person’s career and little else. But with LinkedIn I don’t need to go looking for people and information, the system is smart enough to surface that for me.
Many work interactions may be superficial by design also. We let people know what we want them to know about us, which may be nothing. And employers requiring workers to provide this level of information are opening themselves up to all sorts of risks.
Candor seems to be a contemporary My Space clone without any smarts.
This seems very 2010 and like so much effort. I guess I see some value if you’re working remotely and there’s little way for co-workers to get to know you on a more personal level, but this feels very much like a solution looking for a problem that doesn’t actually exist.
Thanks for sharing your perspective, Craig.
Here’s a bit more on why I see Candor and other approaches like it as having value.
I find that a LinkedIn profile provides not much of a sense of a person’s interests, and for those you work with only sporadically or in a limited way, it can be nice to have a way to get to know what that person is all about - beyond their technical skills or official function. This is why some teams have started making “user manuals” about each team member, to help people get to know one another. But many people don’t have an easy way to do that, or it’s just a google doc or something clunky.
My sense is that many work interactions are superficial partly because people don’t actually know much about one another, and given that many people don’t have their own extensive personal websites, it seems to me Candor fills a useful gap.
It’s actually not much effort - you pick some questions to answer and share a few of your few favorites and in 10 or 15 minutes you’ve got a little guide to some of what interests you that provides a peek into who you are for team members or other people you meet with. Anyway, that’s my take.
Nice post, however I agree with Craig’s comment. This is a busy, text heavy solution that requires the user to manually trawl through content. LinkedIn’s limitations are by design - it focuses on key attributes of a person’s career and little else. But with LinkedIn I don’t need to go looking for people and information, the system is smart enough to surface that for me.
Many work interactions may be superficial by design also. We let people know what we want them to know about us, which may be nothing. And employers requiring workers to provide this level of information are opening themselves up to all sorts of risks.
Candor seems to be a contemporary My Space clone without any smarts.
I’m still filling my profile 🤭 was a long task. I’m ready now with my account and following you, see you there!