What Derek Briggs thinks about team size

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Designer and developer. Principal designer at Shopify; before that head of design at Hypermode (with Kevin Van Gundy, acquired) and, in 2024, Director of Design at Clerk.

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1. 3 Nov 2026

   Our readingCompanies waste their time hiring many specialists to own every area when that expertise can be deployed horizontally through Markdown files.

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   Their wordsI think companies are wasting their time if they're trying to hire tons of these people to be responsible for all these areas when you can very horizontally deploy them through Markdown files.

   ↗Derek Briggs - Scaling craft at Shopifyyoutube.com 12th of 13 in this recording