Susie Conley

40:00 Support those existing communities. They put time and effort into cultivating those communities outside of the brand. Then you’ll find when it gets large, e.g. 20K at Logseq, people pop in, ask instead of search for existing answers, and then it requires moderators to manage it. Notion found themselves in a position where they blew up on TikT... See more

Shawn's tip for when to Specialize vs Generalize: Specialize in peace time and generalize in war time. Having a mastery of a domain is highest reward. Yet when you are on a small team, that's usually when you generalize, because no one else is there to do things.

Career advise from July Evans: Write a “brag” document. It’s useful in negotiation, in annual review & promo conversations, and when you least expect it. Why: you can’t expect your manager to know everything you’ve done. Plus you need to combat your own human cognitive issues (memory, recency bias, self depreciation, etc). What to do: maintain ... See more

29:33 - Do the minimum to plug the "leaks in your game" (poker term). Because you won’t be a better player by only plugging leaks, you need to focus on your strengths.

• Academic HCI work, where your output is published papers & it's very competitive. 

• Corporate R&D, usually requires commercialization on a very short timeline.

• Independent research lab, such as Inc & Switch, where they try to research for commercialization on a longer timeline by cutting off the corporation part of the equation

10:25 - 13:49 - About company he works for, Temporal. Shawn sees workflow engines as an under-explored area of custom database. Descript is a customer of Temporal. They found him via his blog. He came in as employee #17. And was the kind of job that doesn’t exist until you are talking together and you create the role yourself. Shawn believes 20% of... See more

Ramses Career origins to becoming community manager for Logseq, a notetaking software as "open-source knowledge base." In learning many languages, Ramses has built skills in community building and in notetaking. Language learning hugely benefits from community support. Now there are new tools in flashcards & notetaking as well. These factors al... See more