Meeting Title: Weekly Sync on Standards and Meetings Date: 2026-03-20 Meeting participants: Brylle Girang, Uttam Kumaran
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1 00:29:11.370 ⇒ 00:29:12.340 Uttam Kumaran: AB.
2 00:29:14.100 ⇒ 00:29:15.960 Brylle Girang: Hello! Good morning.
3 00:29:16.470 ⇒ 00:29:17.490 Uttam Kumaran: Good morning.
4 00:29:18.340 ⇒ 00:29:19.960 Uttam Kumaran: How’s the week? Tell me.
5 00:29:22.150 ⇒ 00:29:24.339 Brylle Girang: I feel slower, man.
6 00:29:25.040 ⇒ 00:29:27.799 Brylle Girang: I feel like I’m not moving at the pace that I want to.
7 00:29:28.440 ⇒ 00:29:29.120 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, tell me.
8 00:29:29.120 ⇒ 00:29:35.069 Brylle Girang: I feel like this week, I’ve been more reactive rather than proactive.
9 00:29:35.680 ⇒ 00:29:36.670 Brylle Girang: So, yeah.
10 00:29:37.520 ⇒ 00:29:39.290 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, talk to me about, like…
11 00:29:39.290 ⇒ 00:29:39.850 Brylle Girang: I got it.
12 00:29:39.850 ⇒ 00:29:44.540 Uttam Kumaran: What do you… Yeah, talk to me about what do you think caused it, like…
13 00:29:45.250 ⇒ 00:29:51.590 Uttam Kumaran: I mean, a couple things, like, it could take a look at your schedule, take a look at, like, the type of work, like, what do you think…
14 00:29:51.880 ⇒ 00:29:53.420 Uttam Kumaran: It was in particular.
15 00:29:54.890 ⇒ 00:29:56.180 Brylle Girang: Yeah,
16 00:29:57.000 ⇒ 00:30:06.190 Brylle Girang: I think, especially during Mondays and Tuesdays, most of my schedule is dedicated to, like, meetings, and then at calls, especially with Greg out. I needed to
17 00:30:06.300 ⇒ 00:30:12.849 Brylle Girang: Like, make sure that… he gets everything that he needs, so Mondays to Wednesdays, that’s mostly it.
18 00:30:13.060 ⇒ 00:30:15.130 Brylle Girang: And then this Thursday and Friday.
19 00:30:15.260 ⇒ 00:30:23.559 Brylle Girang: most of the stuff were really ad hoc, like, the reviews, the changes that’s happening, and then I’m mostly just
20 00:30:23.700 ⇒ 00:30:36.920 Brylle Girang: trying to make sure that any request that’s urgent and critical, I can totally focus on that. I block times, like, one hour every day just to try to strategize, but…
21 00:30:37.260 ⇒ 00:30:40.259 Brylle Girang: I… I don’t feel like I, like.
22 00:30:40.260 ⇒ 00:30:40.800 Uttam Kumaran: It’s working.
23 00:30:40.800 ⇒ 00:30:43.269 Brylle Girang: Where I want to get, yeah.
24 00:30:44.030 ⇒ 00:30:48.459 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so I sort of was thinking also a little bit this morning, and I was like.
25 00:30:49.010 ⇒ 00:30:52.109 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, one is, like, I kind of…
26 00:30:52.670 ⇒ 00:31:09.869 Uttam Kumaran: Everybody, I think, keeps saying they’re in a lot of meetings, so I want to try to see, like, what we could do to solve that, because part of it is, like, some people just need to, like, I think our thing is we just need to focus a lot more on setting the standard, and we don’t need to meet with people to figure it out.
27 00:31:10.000 ⇒ 00:31:14.470 Uttam Kumaran: Like, I think we had way too many meetings with, like, Pranav this week.
28 00:31:14.620 ⇒ 00:31:16.240 Uttam Kumaran: Like… You know?
29 00:31:16.570 ⇒ 00:31:17.740 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know, like…
30 00:31:18.400 ⇒ 00:31:27.109 Uttam Kumaran: like, he should be trying to do things and sending it for review, like, I don’t want you to spend, like… there’s no reason to spend more time on that, you know?
31 00:31:27.530 ⇒ 00:31:29.770 Uttam Kumaran: And so I’m wondering, like.
32 00:31:30.070 ⇒ 00:31:35.829 Uttam Kumaran: How our time could be better used on some of this stuff versus meeting one-on-one with people.
33 00:31:36.150 ⇒ 00:31:43.970 Uttam Kumaran: And I don’t want you to be the one, like, oh, because I’m busy, you’re meeting one-on-one with everybody, like, that’s not… that’s not right either.
34 00:31:44.140 ⇒ 00:31:49.130 Uttam Kumaran: I think, yeah, like, so I don’t know, I feel like…
35 00:31:50.890 ⇒ 00:32:01.100 Uttam Kumaran: maybe we have to go example by example and, like, think through it. I also think, like, dude, I’ve been working late, and so waking up early has been tough for me to meet.
36 00:32:01.260 ⇒ 00:32:06.890 Uttam Kumaran: So I’m also like, okay, how do we… how do me and you find time to meet as well?
37 00:32:07.350 ⇒ 00:32:14.650 Uttam Kumaran: I mean, maybe what we should do is, like… the… Maybe we should just, like…
38 00:32:15.050 ⇒ 00:32:18.359 Uttam Kumaran: Meet, like, right after this meeting in the mornings?
39 00:32:19.170 ⇒ 00:32:21.969 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know.
40 00:32:22.570 ⇒ 00:32:25.189 Uttam Kumaran: Like, I’m trying to think about what to do there.
41 00:32:25.870 ⇒ 00:32:26.890 Brylle Girang: Yes.
42 00:32:28.400 ⇒ 00:32:44.190 Brylle Girang: Yeah, I think that’s going to be better, like, we can reschedule our one-on-ones every after the stand-ups, and in the future, I would like our stand-ups to just be 30 minutes long, so that gives us more time to actually converse.
43 00:32:44.190 ⇒ 00:32:44.880 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
44 00:32:44.880 ⇒ 00:32:47.520 Brylle Girang: Yeah, it’s a double edge, sorry.
45 00:32:47.750 ⇒ 00:32:51.080 Brylle Girang: I think the main reason why we…
46 00:32:54.910 ⇒ 00:32:57.509 Brylle Girang: Is it because they’re not in the standards yet?
47 00:32:57.660 ⇒ 00:33:02.270 Brylle Girang: And we need to get to that standard before we totally let go of it.
48 00:33:02.500 ⇒ 00:33:03.940 Brylle Girang: So…
49 00:33:05.570 ⇒ 00:33:12.360 Brylle Girang: I’m just trying to think, like, how can we do this more intelligently, and then give them the autonomy that
50 00:33:12.510 ⇒ 00:33:14.700 Brylle Girang: We want them to be in, and at the.
51 00:33:14.700 ⇒ 00:33:15.060 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
52 00:33:16.150 ⇒ 00:33:24.089 Brylle Girang: have them commit to the things that they need to do. Because, especially with Branav, I think one of the main problems that I’m seeing is that
53 00:33:25.360 ⇒ 00:33:32.529 Brylle Girang: It goes, and then he forgets, or it doesn’t really understand, and then that’s where the cycle goes.
54 00:33:34.140 ⇒ 00:33:40.579 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, and he’s… and him and Greg are doing good with clients. They’re both just struggling at the organization.
55 00:33:41.060 ⇒ 00:33:44.640 Uttam Kumaran: And so… I wonder if it’s, like…
56 00:33:45.150 ⇒ 00:33:52.579 Uttam Kumaran: I mean, but this is my problem, is that, like, because… because they were out, I couldn’t work on any of the standards.
57 00:33:53.230 ⇒ 00:33:59.590 Uttam Kumaran: Like, I couldn’t do anything for the company because I have to work on client stuff for these guys.
58 00:33:59.980 ⇒ 00:34:04.620 Uttam Kumaran: You know? Like, I had to do so much on default, and…
59 00:34:05.010 ⇒ 00:34:08.830 Uttam Kumaran: and Element this week. I… my entire day is booked.
60 00:34:09.100 ⇒ 00:34:14.519 Uttam Kumaran: And that’s why I’m like, guys, if you could at least just keep a little bit of cover.
61 00:34:14.659 ⇒ 00:34:17.149 Uttam Kumaran: Like, I can go do my job for you.
62 00:34:17.290 ⇒ 00:34:22.909 Uttam Kumaran: And I felt really, like, Like, I wasn’t getting the support I needed.
63 00:34:23.360 ⇒ 00:34:26.350 Uttam Kumaran: And the proactivity that I wanted to see.
64 00:34:26.670 ⇒ 00:34:30.260 Uttam Kumaran: But I’m… I don’t know, I’m… I’m also thinking about, like.
65 00:34:30.730 ⇒ 00:34:34.029 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, what can we do better? I think there’s, like…
66 00:34:34.730 ⇒ 00:34:45.979 Uttam Kumaran: I think one is, I feel like we’ve… we have all of the skills and things necessary, so I actually think, like, it’s worth taking a pause on all the stuff that we’ve built.
67 00:34:46.340 ⇒ 00:34:50.000 Uttam Kumaran: Like, so one thing I think we can make a chain for next week is, like.
68 00:34:50.150 ⇒ 00:35:07.550 Uttam Kumaran: don’t… don’t ship anything. Like, I’ll… like, let’s try to see how… if we can get people to actually use some of it, and give some feedback, because that’s also been hard, like, people haven’t been giving feedback. But the other thing is, like, maybe me and you just… we try to spend the week
69 00:35:07.720 ⇒ 00:35:09.170 Uttam Kumaran: on standards.
70 00:35:09.370 ⇒ 00:35:12.710 Uttam Kumaran: And I have… I will have some… I’ll have a…
71 00:35:12.710 ⇒ 00:35:13.080 Brylle Girang: Yeah.
72 00:35:13.080 ⇒ 00:35:16.539 Uttam Kumaran: a couple things to share on Monday about this.
73 00:35:16.750 ⇒ 00:35:22.990 Uttam Kumaran: But maybe that’s, like, our project for next week, is we lock in the standard going into Q2,
74 00:35:23.230 ⇒ 00:35:25.430 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t think it’s worth, like…
75 00:35:26.040 ⇒ 00:35:32.670 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t think it’s worth doing… More right now, until… That’s done.
76 00:35:32.930 ⇒ 00:35:37.920 Uttam Kumaran: You know, like, I don’t think it’s worth, like, for me to cry over it more until it’s done.
77 00:35:38.040 ⇒ 00:35:44.219 Uttam Kumaran: And so… this is where, like, I think, like, there’s two things. One is, like, for…
78 00:35:44.690 ⇒ 00:35:53.309 Uttam Kumaran: for all the core projects, like, I just want to make sure that I’m able to see the milestones and the technical roadmap.
79 00:35:53.500 ⇒ 00:36:00.110 Uttam Kumaran: And so one thing that could be that I want to just try and lock out today is the format for that.
80 00:36:01.080 ⇒ 00:36:05.720 Uttam Kumaran: The second piece is, like, I actually don’t…
81 00:36:05.990 ⇒ 00:36:09.790 Uttam Kumaran: this is where I think I want you to maybe… maybe switch to, like.
82 00:36:10.000 ⇒ 00:36:27.810 Uttam Kumaran: getting people to use the automations, and understanding, like, what is the… continue to be the gap between everything being in linear. Like, one thing that was tough this week is, like, I feel like you… you kept mentioning that the Instagant migration, like, was going on and on and on. Now, frankly, like, I…
83 00:36:28.040 ⇒ 00:36:31.269 Uttam Kumaran: I… I did it to Element in, like, 30 minutes.
84 00:36:31.460 ⇒ 00:36:38.609 Uttam Kumaran: So that’s why I’m, like, I want to know what was difficult about that, and, like, how I… how I can help with… with items like that, too.
85 00:36:38.610 ⇒ 00:36:39.590 Brylle Girang: That’s April.
86 00:36:41.060 ⇒ 00:36:41.760 Brylle Girang: Yep.
87 00:36:47.050 ⇒ 00:36:52.310 Uttam Kumaran: Like, what do you… what do you think in particular, like, even looking at, like, your,
88 00:36:54.540 ⇒ 00:36:57.400 Uttam Kumaran: Even looking at, like, your goals for the week.
89 00:36:57.980 ⇒ 00:37:01.280 Uttam Kumaran: you know, I’m kind of like, what do you, what do you think,
90 00:37:02.410 ⇒ 00:37:05.250 Uttam Kumaran: Was the, you know, difficulty there.
91 00:37:08.120 ⇒ 00:37:14.979 Brylle Girang: Yeah, my main goal, supposedly for this week, was really to push the adoption of the CSO skills.
92 00:37:15.140 ⇒ 00:37:19.390 Brylle Girang: Where I need your help there is trying to, like, brainstorm and commit
93 00:37:20.110 ⇒ 00:37:29.319 Brylle Girang: a way where we can measure the usage, because as you mentioned, we’re not getting feedback, I’m not getting, like, words from them, but at least I want to see
94 00:37:30.110 ⇒ 00:37:32.619 Brylle Girang: The actual usage of those skills.
95 00:37:32.780 ⇒ 00:37:42.670 Brylle Girang: I have ideas, maybe, you know, embed a step in the skills where it logs something in Notion or Google Sheets, etc, but I don’t…
96 00:37:43.490 ⇒ 00:37:48.439 Brylle Girang: We will be able to push adoption if we don’t actually know the data behind it.
97 00:37:48.570 ⇒ 00:38:06.970 Brylle Girang: Or else, we’re going to risk ourselves trying to ask them every day if they’re actually using that skill. And we also risk ourselves, or we also risk, like, not truly understanding how they use those skills, so that’s the adoption piece of that. For the instant to learn your migration.
98 00:38:07.160 ⇒ 00:38:12.960 Brylle Girang: I… what really took me long there is, like, the strategizing part, like, how should we…
99 00:38:13.130 ⇒ 00:38:22.689 Brylle Girang: how should we map things out? But I do agree, the migration piece of it, like, the actual step of migrating, that should be quick, and we were able to do that.
100 00:38:22.690 ⇒ 00:38:25.880 Uttam Kumaran: I guess even that’s what I’m… that’s what I’m saying, is like…
101 00:38:26.180 ⇒ 00:38:34.529 Uttam Kumaran: the strategizing piece… this is where I think one thing I’ll say is because you’re not… on every client.
102 00:38:35.660 ⇒ 00:38:49.130 Uttam Kumaran: what’s gonna happen is if you just use AI, it’s gonna be super verbose, and it’s gonna leave a lot of stuff that isn’t accurate, right? So what I’m… what I’m actually… what I would love to have heard at that point was like, hey, this is taking too long.
103 00:38:49.240 ⇒ 00:38:50.510 Uttam Kumaran: Can you handle it?
104 00:38:51.170 ⇒ 00:39:00.050 Uttam Kumaran: Because I just did it for Element. I’m gonna do it for default, like, if I can get any time today, I’m gonna try to do it for as many clients as I can, you know?
105 00:39:00.750 ⇒ 00:39:06.409 Uttam Kumaran: And so… I think that would have been helpful if you were like, hey, this is, like.
106 00:39:06.530 ⇒ 00:39:09.559 Uttam Kumaran: Getting way too complicated, because literally, it’s actually…
107 00:39:10.430 ⇒ 00:39:23.110 Uttam Kumaran: both instant and linear, like, neither, I think, were, like, super accurate. So, what we needed to do is just rebuild, like, the project plan, and then rebuild the initiatives and the milestones.
108 00:39:23.370 ⇒ 00:39:29.720 Uttam Kumaran: But I can go do that, and I’m happy to do that, right? So, I feel like let’s… let’s keep talking…
109 00:39:29.930 ⇒ 00:39:32.149 Uttam Kumaran: Today, about, like, how we wanna…
110 00:39:32.600 ⇒ 00:39:37.709 Uttam Kumaran: improve. I think before we get out this week, I think it would be good to connect, for sure.
111 00:39:37.940 ⇒ 00:39:45.510 Uttam Kumaran: I mean, my day is, like, horrible. I don’t even know, like… I mean, this is the… this is, like… it’s just the problem is, like…
112 00:39:47.610 ⇒ 00:39:51.770 Uttam Kumaran: I really wish I just had time during the week to do anything.
113 00:39:53.010 ⇒ 00:39:57.689 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, my, my other…
114 00:39:57.910 ⇒ 00:40:01.389 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, okay, let’s hop to this meeting, and then I can… I can share a couple things.
115 00:40:02.320 ⇒ 00:40:02.970 Brylle Girang: Okay, sure.
116 00:40:03.220 ⇒ 00:40:04.270 Uttam Kumaran: See you. Thank you, sir.