Nestor Valles
@nstrvs
creative director
Nestor Valles
nstrvs.com
Innovation is art - it can’t be scaled.
Scaling a team creates a hierarchy to reduce coordination costs.
Hierarchy introduces the Principal-Agent problem.
Agents optimize for status and cohesion over correctness.
Going from zero to one requires a founder-led flat team.
Scaling a team creates a hierarchy to reduce coordination costs.
Hierarchy introduces the Principal-Agent problem.
Agents optimize for status and cohesion over correctness.
Going from zero to one requires a founder-led flat team.
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“Shortcuts will cut you short. There are no shortcuts in life.”
- Narendra Modi (PM of India, on Lex Fridman)
To get things done is management; to make people grow is leadership.
Introducing a Rocks, Sand, and Water Framework for Attention
We always talk about consumers’ attention as being finite, but how is it divided?
I imagine consumers as dividing their attention in a given day across three different types of “events” or modes: Events that span bigger blocks of contiguous time (“Rocks”), micro events that take advantage... See more
We always talk about consumers’ attention as being finite, but how is it divided?
I imagine consumers as dividing their attention in a given day across three different types of “events” or modes: Events that span bigger blocks of contiguous time (“Rocks”), micro events that take advantage... See more