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"Just two months ago every meeting that we would have, you see a presentation or a Google Doc and we go through it," Dorsey said. 2 months ago they were still using PowerPoints? Jesus no wonder they had to lay so many people off. What the fuck is going on over there?
Is the idea that prototypes give the Permission Granter more fidelity into a proposal and therefore can make better decisions? Whereas before, with Slide Decks, the Permission Granter couldn't experience certain things and therefore couldn't make as good decisions to grant permissions?
So in effect this remains a billionaire figure speaking from their own perspective and we're supposed to care?
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That's exactly what you have to do for the CEO class
I work at a less innovative place, and I see out product managers coming with prototypes, at least solid mock ups rather than just a jira. They socialize it with potential users, they iterate, they find missing requirements, it's pretty powerful. The net result is we're building better features faster.
Hiring talent that is passionate about delivering a quality product is more important than ever considering there are so many ways to take shortcuts now that might not be obvious until later.
Block signed a friend of mine, they quit their other job, then block was like whoops layoffs including people like this person who hadn’t even started. Super unethical.
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It put enormous pressure on delivery, since leadership had "already seen it working, how hard could it be to make it to production?"
Never again.
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I’ve been in IT for 25 years, it has happened to me once, unfortunately it isn’t that uncommon.
In the USA at least sure. This was in a country with lightly better employment protections so it’s quite uncommon.
I feel like he's just doing it for attention.