Company Culture
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Company Culture
this piece by Brian Armstrong got a lot of shit, but i think the underlying premise is valid. it is hard enough to try to solve one big problem, let alone to be on the hook for all the other problems plaguing the world
At a well-run seed stage startup, engineers will often describe the work experience as intoxicating . At a larger company, the best you get is "enjoyable".
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Jason Fried on company culture:
"You have to find the nature of things. That's the thing I've found to be the most useful tool in anything: trying to understand the true nature of an experience, place, or thing and rolling with the nature.
Any time you go against the true nature of something, you're just battling unnecessarily.
So yeah, figure it
... See moreKevin Scott, now CTO of Microsoft, would ask in candidate interviews: “What do you want your next job to be after this company?” Most of your team members realistically won’t stick with the same company forever. This is even more true as you scale to 20, then 50, then 100 team members and so on. But the best way to empower them to do good work is... See more
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