Simon Joliveau Breney

You should schedule at least one 30-minute weekly meeting with everyone working on the project.

The goal of this meeting is to (1) be a backstop for any coordination that needs to happen and didn’t happen asynchronously; (2) be an efficient way to create common knowledge of goals, updates, etc.; (3) help you track whether things are going well.

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There was a period of time where everything required an experiment and oftentimes the experiment would run for years and nobody will realize that and decide to end the experiment.

Another possible cause is that in many companies, from the viewpoint of the many employees, the company has been “transforming” for years. There has been one big company transformation initiative after another, usually tied to some new senior leader. No wonder that the people suffer from change fatigue.

No one ever complained that their team was too aligned.

When people say “natural language” what they mean is written or verbal communication. Natural language is a way to exchange ideas and knowledge between humans. In other words, it’s a data transfer mechanism.

Data transfer mechanisms have two critical factors: speed and lossiness.