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Be the person that sends the cal invite right away and proposes the time of the meeting in their timezone

Be the person who gives specific feedback, not "looks good!"

Be the person who documents what failed, not just what worked

Be the person who sends actual examples, not just advice

Be the person that doesn't doomscroll on social when you've got

Steve used demo reviews to judge for himself whether features met this basic usability standard. When he gave me the specific feedback to remove one of the two keyboards from my iPad demo, it had a cascade effect toward greater simplicity.

Ken Kocienda • Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

Scott Sigal

@scottsigal

“pulse” surveys

John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

Silicon Valley venture capitalists develop the lean startup “release early, release often” mantra as a way to de-risk investments and avoid investing significant capital without gauging market demand, resulting in narrowing / more incremental innovation. Individual creatives might bias towards smaller projects to de-risk the possibility of

Andrew Kortina • Metrics, Incrementalism, and Local Maxima

We reached a head at a certain point. Our disagreements with Stuart were about what type of person should be on the platform, what they should be doing, and what’s allowed. We wanted anything to be allowed and there not to be a hierarchy, or telling someone what’s important or not. Stuart was very much the opposite, and he wanted to control the... See more

thecreativeindependent.com • Charles Broskoski on Self-Discovery That Happens Upon Revisiting Things You’ve Accumulated Over Time

At Apple, as at Google, a boss’s ability to achieve results had a lot more to do with listening and seeking to understand than it did with telling people what to do; more to do with debating than directing; more to do with pushing people to decide than with being the decider; more to do with persuading than with giving orders; more to do with... See more

Kim Scott • Kim Scott's Radical Candor | The #1 Book For Better Bosses

I've been (officially) doing "Developer Experience" work for 4.5 years. But tbh, I've never really talked about the work itself. Last week, I gave my first talk about writing great docs, getting product feedback, and teaching developers. https://t.co/7FUbEvSgv4

Lee Robinson x.com

Let It Fail

Max Countryman maxcountryman.com