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Identity Values Vs. Operating Values

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Lenny’s Podcast99 min

The engineering mindset

Will Larson · Jan 7, 2024
Key learnings
  • Treat engineers as capable adults by giving them hard problems and accountability, which lets them grow into senior leadership…
  • Build simple stock-and-flow models of processes like hiring pipelines, then compare them against historical data to find where…
  • Write your engineering strategy down, even imperfectly; an unwritten strategy cannot be debugged or improved, and every function…