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Here’s a script for how to talk to a team member about micromanagement (of course, adapt it appropriately):
“I’d like to discuss my involvement in [PROJECT NAME].
As you know from our work together thus far, my default management style is not to micromanage.
As you also know, this is a [high risk | high leverage | high priority] project for the... See more
“I’d like to discuss my involvement in [PROJECT NAME].
As you know from our work together thus far, my default management style is not to micromanage.
As you also know, this is a [high risk | high leverage | high priority] project for the... See more
Understanding Micromanagement
To be simple, you have to be extremely opinionated. You have to remove everything that doesn’t match your opinion of what the product should be doing. You have to meticulously remove every single click, every single extra button, every single setting.
Curate People
In fact, things in the settings menu are an indication that you’ve abdicated your responsibility to the user. Choices for the user are an abdication of your responsibility. Maybe for legal or important reasons, you can have a few of these, but you should struggle and resist against every single choice the user has to make.
In the age of TikTok and... See more
In the age of TikTok and... See more
Curate People
If you really want to have a strong culture of people who are mission-oriented, you can’t mix too many different kinds of people.
That’s where the “cult” in culture comes from. Early teams do look like cults. They are monomaniacal; they are weird; but they’re all kind of weird in a similar way. And if you start mixing too many different kinds of... See more
That’s where the “cult” in culture comes from. Early teams do look like cults. They are monomaniacal; they are weird; but they’re all kind of weird in a similar way. And if you start mixing too many different kinds of... See more
Curate People
Good Teams Throw Away Far More Product Than They Keep
Nivi: There’s a lot of ways people try to assess whether someone has the ability to create new knowledge. Peter Thiel has his famous question: “What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
He’s trying to find out if that person has opinions of their own. Do they have their own... See more
Nivi: There’s a lot of ways people try to assess whether someone has the ability to create new knowledge. Peter Thiel has his famous question: “What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
He’s trying to find out if that person has opinions of their own. Do they have their own... See more
Curate People
Google AI Mode / 2025 / animator
I’m so excited to share my best project I’ve ever been!
Late last year, I got to work on project introducing AI Mode for @google
every moment was an incredible experience with such an incredible team🤍 @ordinaryfolkco
Here's I... See more
instagram.com“One of the reasons the tech industry is so creatively bankrupt is that people just focus on attributes you can measure,” said Jony Ive, when told of the insecurity Kushner had confided to Rick Rubin. “I was very lucky at Apple, because Steve [Jobs] showed me there was a way to articulate things like sensibility, intuition, taste, which all start... See more