Gaia Soykok

"Once one agent learns how to become more competitive by sacrificing a common value, all its competitors must also sacrifice that value or be outcompeted and replaced by the less scrupulous. Therefore, the system is likely to end up with everyone once again equally competitive, but the sacrificed value is gone forever. "

Exppectatiostatus and security.

This essay was written 14 years ago, but the concepts presented are just as relevant today as they were then and are particularly important as we try to figure out what to do with all the very intractable conflicts that are facing us

Product and feedback the more and the better. And everyone has an opinion and they are valid. the job is to prioritise and balance - the synthesis. There will be contradictions. be absolutely clear about who is the audience. What is the "job" this feature fulfills for this person. What

In premortems, all the engineering team needs to be there. and they go through tigers, paper tigers and elephants. https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1221261212979085312

Solo founder Gokul is nervous about it. Two-person is good, the "hustler" and a "hacker"

John Condry, was more succinct: rewards, he said, are the “enemies of exploration.”