Company Culture
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Company Culture
I recently left Stripe after 4.5 formative and magical years. Some reflections on what made working at Stripe feel different than working other places:
1/Turpentine
2/Writing
3/Meticulousness
4/Principled decision-making
5/Ambition
6/Talking up
7/The... See more
Brie Wolfsontwitter.com
Being nice is all about making the other person feel good. Being kind is about providing them with what they actually need. Nice is about feelings. Kindness is about concrete help. And if you want to do great work together, you should aim to be kind rather than nice.
Why YSK: Ever wondered why women want men to just *understand* everything, why some people have a *blunt style of talking, prefer honesty and get impatient with waffling* or why some people have *difficulty asking people outright for help, dislike conflict and often worry about imposing on people*? The answer is simple to explain but not as easy to... See more
reddit.comOur culture is four things: customer obsession instead of competitor obsession; willingness to think long term, with a longer investment horizon than most of our peers; eagerness to invent, which of course goes hand in hand with failure; and then, finally, taking professional pride in operational excellence.
Colin Bryar • Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
If you look closely, all these problems fundamentally come from:
#1 and #2 are inevitable results of having more... See more
- Decreased skin in the game, which reduces team alignment
- N^2 communication, which creates need for managers and specialization, which reduces individual agency and breadth of learning
- Reduced risk tolerance, which slows everything down
#1 and #2 are inevitable results of having more... See more