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Livingston: Who did you learn things from at Google? Did you have mentors? Buchheit: I didn't know anything about building these large systems before working at Google. So I'd look at how different parts of Google work and sort of say, "Does that apply to us? Can we reuse that technique?"—since there was already a successful model of how
... See moreJessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Scott Belsky Talk at South Park Commons
Often designs from frustration
Right now, greater skill is being brought by compute and developing a democratization of many things (code, design, etc.). Because of this, taste will probably be the most important skill
Taste is derived from culture and overlap of industries
Because of that
Google likes straightforward link structures such as the fact that nearly every blog has an archive page that links to every post ever published, and category pages that group posts into categories (called silos in SEO-speak).
Mike Taber • Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
Tiny Worlds: A Manifesto for Sovereign Creators—Attract, Build & Curate an Audience of True Fans
André Chaperonandrechaperon.com
It was better to start with something minimalist, and then let priorities reveal themselves as users ran into trouble.
Sarah Frier • No Filter
JavaScript Patterns: Build Better Applications with Coding and Design Patterns
amazon.com
