Picard Tips
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By @JoeSondow.bsky.social
By @JoeSondow.bsky.social
Picard engineering tip: Use the metric system.
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Picard engineering tip: Use the metric system.
Picard management tip: One mission at a time.
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Picard management tip: One mission at a time.
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Worf
Picard management tip: Be willing to ask for help, even from people you dislike.
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Picard management tip: Be willing to ask for help, even from people you dislike.
Picard morality tip: If one side of a conflict preaches purity of bloodline above communal benefit for all, join the other side.
November 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Picard morality tip: If one side of a conflict preaches purity of bloodline above communal benefit for all, join the other side.
Picard management tip: When you're threatened with catastrophe, it's rational to try a risky maneuver.
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Picard management tip: When you're threatened with catastrophe, it's rational to try a risky maneuver.
Picard management tip: Take full responsibility for your crew's mistakes.
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Picard management tip: Take full responsibility for your crew's mistakes.
Picard travel tip: Bring a book.
November 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Picard travel tip: Bring a book.
Picard management tip: If you're on red alert every day, then red alert means nothing.
November 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Picard management tip: If you're on red alert every day, then red alert means nothing.
Picard exploration tip: Yes, there are 100s of billions of galaxies, but it will take 1,000 lifetimes to map this one, so focus for now.
November 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Picard exploration tip: Yes, there are 100s of billions of galaxies, but it will take 1,000 lifetimes to map this one, so focus for now.
Picard management tip: Remember what you liked to play with as a child. Identify the larger, grown-up versions of those toys at work.
November 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Picard management tip: Remember what you liked to play with as a child. Identify the larger, grown-up versions of those toys at work.
Picard aesthetics tip: Reading on a screen is fine, but there's nothing like an old bound volume of literature.
November 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Picard aesthetics tip: Reading on a screen is fine, but there's nothing like an old bound volume of literature.
Picard management tip: As soon as you find out that a person is truly toxic, get them the hell off your ship.
November 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Picard management tip: As soon as you find out that a person is truly toxic, get them the hell off your ship.
Picard management tip: Ignore rules that make no sense.
November 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Picard management tip: Ignore rules that make no sense.
Picard culinary tip: Tea, Earl Grey, hot.
November 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Picard culinary tip: Tea, Earl Grey, hot.
Picard management tip: Do your best to learn about and comprehend the experiences of people who look very different from you.
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Picard management tip: Do your best to learn about and comprehend the experiences of people who look very different from you.
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.