Ken Covinsky
speaker
1,532 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2016
last heard Sep 2025
Ken Covinsky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm not sort of the like, you know, meet every X days type of person.
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So I find kind of mentees who managed me up are really useful to me.
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So mentees who kind of have some semblance about what they need from me and kind of are at least somewhat goal driven in terms of like, this is the goal and purpose of the meeting we're about to
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ahead, Ken.
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Yeah, Alex, I thought that was really wise.
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And I thought, you know, as you were saying this, and I think this is one of the things I've appreciated from you, but I've also, and also some of my, like, some of my current mentees, I think, do this, is that
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where a lot of the mentee mentor relationships in exchange of ideas, like your mentors, your mentee has given you a product, a paper, and you've kind of given them a thought on where it should go.
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And part of their work is to sort of integrate those ideas, but there's those who just sort of take your ideas literally, but then there's those who are, they're really sophisticated and they take it one step beyond what you were thinking.
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So it's not just that they,
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take your track changes but you might say something like this is unclear and they come back the next time and say you know i thought about what you said this was unclear and i thought that i had to reconceptualize this and they come back with something and you say like wow i never thought of that you know that is really clever and innovative
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I'm laughing because I think one of the annoying things I do is I'm a little bit full of ideas for other people, which is the funnest ideas to have because somebody else has to do the labor on it.
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But so I think there's incredible value in just sharing ideas.
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But I think a mentee really has to be comfortable saying, no, that's not me.
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That's not really what I'm after.
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And a mentor has to be comfortable accepting that outcome.
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I will kind of sort of say that sometimes people keep the definitions of ideas too narrow, though, because often the concept is, well, one idea isn't the right project, but some derivation of that is.
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So that ideas do grow from each other.
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So
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A mentor should not be too fast in closing off a mentee's idea because, oh, it's not doable.
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It's too much work.
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