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The essential responsibilities of a leader/company exec, via DHH:
1. Chart the course
Where are we going? What are we building? Who is it for? Any executive running anything has to know the answer to these questions in order to lead anyone anywhere. If you don't have a clue where you're going, any road can take you there, and running in circles
... See moreGreat thing about starting your own company that you can design the way you want it.
Too many founders or companies fall in this trap following established playbooks or bring processes from other places. People also say that “it doesn’t work” or “it won’t scale”, which my response is well have you tried it? Have you tr... See more
Karri Saarinenx.comNothing that changed my life was made by people who were in a hurry—it was definitely made by people who took special care in their work and were after making the best possible work.
I am tired of conversations that revolve around making things that lack care, products that exist because the founder wants to hit some external metric and appear a cer
... See moreNothing matters if you're not proud of it.
The Head of Design At Airbnb printed out 3 questions for designers at Airbnb to answer:
1) Does it work?
2) Does it scale?
3) Are you proud of it?
If the answer to #3 isn’t a resounding “yes” then they won’t ship (even if metrics suggest you should)