On building of All Trades
It’s time we rebuild the rhythms of our organizations around the substantive bits instead of the knee-jerk ones. What happened to virtues like discipline, contemplation, care, and reflection in our work lives?
Brie Wolfson • Good Cogs and Their Tools
You can start a company to make an impact and surround yourself with people on a similar journey, or you can seek to maximize the stock price and profits.
Putting up the big numbers
the people who can start things will be the major beneficiaries in the coming years, because the barrier is no longer knowledge or skills, it’s courage.
Superhuman
in my role as a more traditional COO (which I also thoroughly enjoyed) I was touching on a large number of parts within Buffer. It also created a certain level of pressure, one that Joel described very well in this post. I felt the urge to try and “keep everything together” and within an arm’s reach so everything would go according to plan.
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How We're Working Without Managers at Buffer
The COO role shifts when you’re building a networked instead of a structured organization
I started this company in one of the recessions and had seen suppliers and customers go to the wall in droves. To me, getting more customers and more orders meant safety and security.
To the people who worked for me, growth meant change.
To the people who worked for me, growth meant change.
6 Ways I Sabotaged My Own Startup’s Culture
Growth is change — communicate often.
“Self-management requires an interlocking set of structures and practices.”
How We're Working Without Managers at Buffer
Stop trading time for money, start trading value for money.
100 Simple Truths
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.