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Inversion: The Crucial Thinking Skill Nobody Ever Taught You 5 minutes read.
״Inversion is not about finding good advice, but rather about finding anti-advice. It teaches you what to avoid... Inversion prevents you from making up your mind after your first conclusion. It is a way to counteract the gravitational pull of confirmation bias.״ -- I like to apply this thinking in a Pre-mortem, where you're trying to assume the project has failed and work backward on what could be the reasons for it. It often works better when you do it with different teams on the same project, as you can get fresh opinions based on different context and expertise.
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Moonlighting Managers Ain’t Got No Time for BS 2 minutes read.
I think that great managers can be meaningful multipliers - they often bridge the business context individual contributors need, to move faster without involving the entire company. I'm a big believer in this sentiment: "So rather than dream up elaborate plans and complex policies, the moonlighting manager tends to pick the simpler, easier road that doesn’t require them to constantly steer the buggy. That’s a path that invites delegation of responsibility and autonomy. Fewer sign-offs, fewer check-ins, fewer bottlenecks."
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Want to Be a Better VP R&D? Then Lose This One False Metric. 5 minutes read.
"The one thing that matters is RESULTS. The outputs. " — what I’ve seen working best is to agree on the results and prioritize them before you start your Unit of Execution, e.g. sprint, quarter etc. Misalignment of expectations between the CTO or CEO and the VP Engineering often happen where things you’d consider nice to have, and didn’t happen in the required time frame, were implicitly tagged as "must win!" in their view, and vice-versa.
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