Andrew Bosworth
American executive known as Boz; chief technology officer of Meta and head of Reality Labs, who earlier built Facebook's News Feed, Messenger and Groups.
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Most collaboration problems between teams are interface problems more than relationship problems.
Their wordsWe tend to treat collaboration problems between teams as relationship problems. Sometimes they are. More often I think they are interface problems.
↗Good Interfaces Make Good Neighborsboz.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsA list containing only the things a team has decided to do is not a priority list; it is a marketing document.
↗Good Interfaces Make Good Neighborsboz.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 8 months earlier
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Their wordsStrong teams hold ideas lightly and goals firmly.
- 4 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThe question isn’t whether a piece of work is good. Many things are good. The question is whether it’s better than the other things you could be doing instead.
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Their wordsIt isn’t hard to say no to bad ideas. The real work is saying no to good ideas that aren’t the best ones.
- 2 days earlier
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Their wordsI’ve never thought “follow your passion” was particularly good advice for young people. A better heuristic is “follow your skill.”
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Sacrificing your happiness for your company is almost always a short-term play that ends in burnout.
Their wordsSacrificing your happiness for your company is almost always a short-term play. Eventually you burn out.
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsHonesty isn’t just virtuous; it’s scalable. A culture that defaults to truth avoids the compounding drag of suspicion, double-checking, and post-hoc justification.
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Honesty is the best policy because it performs best over time, not because it always feels good.
Their wordsIt isn’t the best because it always feels good in the moment. It’s the best because it performs best over time.
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsStill, I find it useful to think of product development as more akin to archaeology or cartography than chemistry or math.
- 6 years earlier
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Companies should never be afraid to risk sacrificing a good product in search of a great one.
Their wordsWe believe we should never be afraid to risk sacrificing a good product in the search of a great one.
- 12 months earlier
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Their wordsIn my experience, discussion expands the space of possibilities while writing reduces it to its most essential components.
- 8 months earlier
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Their wordsBut compromise makes bad products. We’re not trying to get elected or choose which movie to watch.
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Their wordsInstead, it is most often the product of a single vision, sharpened through conflict with competing visions.
- 15 months earlier
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Their wordsSaying nothing can often be even more damaging than saying the wrong thing.