17 connected korrents · 17 moments from 12 Jun 2008 to 29 Sept 2026.
At the centre
With many stakeholders on a project, the most important thing is bringing them along, showing them the thinking behind the decision and selling them over, which makes it a lot easier to progress as a unit.
Last stated 2 Apr 2026 · 6 months ago
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Marvin Schwaibold
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People will go through onboarding steps if it is engaging and makes the value of what they are onboarding onto abundantly clear upfront.
Last stated 25 Aug 2026 · a month ago
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John Bai
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Onboarding probably matters much more now than it did before.
Last stated 10 Sept 2026 · 4 weeks ago
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Nan Yu
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A company owes its builders a moral contract: if they take the hill, leadership must work just as hard to unlock the value of what they built.
Last stated 2 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
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Mark Pincus
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As building gets easier, choosing the right thing to build and knowing what good looks like matter more for product teams.
Last stated 29 Sept 2026 · 6 days ago
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Lenny Rachitsky
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Sharing responsibility for quality, educating and delegating rather than gatekeeping, helps engineers and product partners feel they own it too.
Last stated 8 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
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Meaghan Choi
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The only way to build something that matters is to develop conviction in a set of beliefs nobody else agrees with yet, long before they become consensus.
Last stated 29 Jul 2026 · 2 months ago
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Alexandr Wang
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Any redesign of an incumbent product, such as an onboarding flow, almost always loses at first; it takes the confidence and agreement to begin below the status quo baseline in order to beat the incumbent.
Last stated 12 May 2026 · 5 months ago
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Katarina Batina
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Paying a maintainer must not buy a say in the project’s direction; funding and governance have to be kept as separate as possible.
Last stated 17 Mar 2022 · 5 years ago
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Filippo Valsorda
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Same subject: management
"Hire great people and get out of their way" is dangerous advice for anyone in a leadership role.
Last stated 17 Dec 2024 · 2 years ago
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Charity Majors
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Same subject: management
A career goes better attached to the part of a business that brings the money in than to a cost centre, whatever the work itself is.
Last stated 28 Oct 2011 · 15 years ago
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Patrick McKenzie
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Same subject: management
A career ladder must not be a checklist that guarantees promotion, because a promotion depends on the organisation’s needs as much as on the employee’s skills.
Last stated 28 May 2025 · a year ago
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Camille Fournier
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Same subject: team size
AI favours tiny teams of high-agency individual contributors with blurred roles, and the coordinating manager is not needed until it is time to polish.
Last stated 25 Mar 2025 · 2 years ago
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Julie Zhuo
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Same subject: team size
AI-branded layoffs are not about AI; they are about badly run companies putting an AI label on having hired too many people.
Last stated 27 Sept 2026 · a week ago
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Molly Graham
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Same subject: team size
An engineering manager should support six to eight engineers: fewer and they drift into being a tech lead, more and they can only be a coach.
Last stated 14 Jul 2018 · 8 years ago
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Will Larson
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Same subject: hiring
A portfolio that could be one-shotted, or that looks very familiar next to someone else's, is going to put hiring managers off.
Last stated 29 Sept 2026 · 6 days ago
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Danny Martinez
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Same subject: hiring
An obsession with titles is what will screw people over.
Last stated 14 Apr 2026 · 6 months ago
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Brian Lovin
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Same subject: hiring
Better organizations recruit more effectively, because most people want to work for a high-quality organization
Last stated 12 Jun 2008 · 18 years ago
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Max Bazerman