Work hacks
Tricks, rituals, processes & ideas to improve work & teamwork
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Work hacks
Expect good.
If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like?
How to Do Great Work, by Paul Graham
How the Greatest Entrepreneurs Hire (h/t David Senra)
Steve Jobs stated that each new hire became a percentage of the company, so why wouldn’t you take the time to find all A-players?
David Ogilvy, as an already established businessman, would see advertisements that he liked and then cold call the person who made the ad — this is how he sourced his
Not sure if anything changed my approach to work and engineering in the past five years more than this passage from @Lethain, written in the context of staff engineering but much more broadly applicable.
- #fyi — had a thought, no real hill to die on.
- #suggestion — there’s a hill, I’m not going to die on it. But this is what I would do if I were you.
- #recommendation — I’m climbing the hill, I won’t die on it. But I’ve thought about this a lot, and don’t ignore the feedback.
- #plea — I don’t like dying on hills and that’s not really what we do, but this