Week ending 5/13/22

Identity Management Methods (Joel Spolsky)

• value: high
• topics: management, teams
• takeaways: give people the information they need to understand why we should do something
  

Week ending 3/11/22

• How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum (Gergely Orosz)
  • value: high
  • topics: management, project management, team dynamics, dev infrastructure
  • takeaways: give autonomy to teammates as much as possible, team leads act as engineers and planners to meet objects, rotate engineers into team lead role for growth, slack time for innovation, smart engineers solve business problems not assigned tasks, scrum is good for new teams to work together
• Lessons from Keith Rabois: How to Become a Magnet for Talent and Assess Talent
  • Value: high
  • topics: management, talent, performance, recruiting
  • takeaways: look for potential not experience, go to top 50 smartest people in network and try to recruit them or ask if they have friends that would be interested, look for risk takers, talk about startup loudly, develop conviction quickly and close quickly, ppl dragging their feet likely won't close
• Titles at startups
  • Value: high
  • topics: management, org structure, recruiting
  • takeaways: defer conferring titles as long as possible, people managers are leads, leads can have leads, no directors/vps/etc, good tech people care about scope and impact not titles