Ask for time and take notes to review later

Take both physical and mental notes on what goes on around you. 

While you're immersing yourself in the culture of the company, also familiarize yourself with some of the other norms. How does your boss react to certain things? What are the problems you can provide solutions to? ...

1. Add as much as you can into the system. You can email yourself things to do, or put them in your calendar, or take quick notes, or take a picture.
2. Process it all as fast as you can. Anything you don't need to deal with right now, either mark it done or snooze it for lat...

What we present should correspond to what we want an attentive listener to take down in his notebook.

We should make it simple for people to understand our ideas on the spot. We shouldn't expect them to revisit it later. Even if they do, we won't be there to answer questio...