On building of All Trades
When there’s high fit on a team, there’s high trust, and with that trust comes the ability to make decisions quickly.
Navigating New Waters: 10 Tips for First-Time Founder Success
There’s lots of well-intentioned advice out there about the risks if a business takes off and there isn’t a solid foundation to stand on. But at the same time, it's no surprise that startup leaders see words like "optimizing headcount through capacity planning models" and file it away as unnecessary bureaucracy that’s more befitting of the “BigCo”... See more
How Talent Teams Can Better Weather Boom-and-Bust Cycles
“The majority of companies don’t work in the way we do, which leads to fewer people with these kinds of skills. A conventional interview process, often modeled by large companies, doesn’t account for this. It’s challenging to assess in interviews if someone is truly a builder, has good taste and judgment, can take initiative, and approaches... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • Adding a work trial to your interview process
Responsive organizations are fueled by individual and collective learning. Retrospectives are baked into the culture; feedback and learning drive strategy and growth.
Sharan Bal • Hiring Humans, Not Resources
Self-promotion makes me uncomfortable.
Maybe because I (read: most women) am not really great at it?
Or because I never want to sound sales-y.
Maybe because I (read: most women) am not really great at it?
Or because I never want to sound sales-y.
Sari Azout • A Moodboard for People Who Hate Self-Promotion
- Reflect on your progress. While job titles are fixed, your daily accomplishments are not. Writing every day to think about what you actually did today that made you a better version of yourself is a great exercise to ensure you focus on the right things. Journaling is a powerful tool to add to your mental gym.
- Conduct personal experiments. Making
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • The tyranny of job titles: from vanity growth to personal growth
These are direct actions we take internally in our rituals for generalists at oAT — so cool to see this mirrored back to us.
We’re in the business of being fundamentally different, not incrementally better.
Lenny Rachitsky • Be Fundamentally Different, Not Incrementally Better | Jag Duggal
“We are only leading when we are centered on making others better.”
Superhuman
Paul Graham said, “when people visit your startup, they should be surprised how few people you have.”
The Operating as One Issue
Generalists get you more with less.