Abhirama

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Thought Stream — week of 16 Nov 2020

Feedback is a dish best served hot.


Many leadership interventions are like helping to choose the most likely lottery number to win.


While the 10x engineer is a hotly debated and contested topic, what you really need to be worried about is the 1/10x engineer.


Instead of focussing on critical feedback, companies would do better if they focus on creating an environment where the behaviors they do not want cannot be exhibited.


Most new business ideas are founders believing a self-delusional story of creating a better version of an existing product and investors buying that story.


Scaling is a commodity in today’s cloud world.

Acquiring users is not.

Do not fret over how your architecture will scale for million users.

Fret over how you can rapidly scale the product to acquire those million users.


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