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Re: Google Doc Templates for Startups

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Nit: - Decision doc: It'll be great to have a "Stakeholders" section listing each stake holders' name , and they can add their concerns in that section to start discussion. - Investigation doc: There should be a "things we tried so far" section listing the actions took to validate each hypothesis, and the outcome of those actions, in timeline order. - 1:1 meeting note: there's a built-in building block support in Goo…

I don't disagree outright, but every time I read something like this it's obvious that it doesnt come from experiential success in the relevant area, just kind of a vibe about how things should be done, without tangible proof. IE the legendary Dropbox analysis on here. Never in my professional career have I cared about anything you listed here

Wait have you never had a work experience where people make decision without properly asking around then someone on another team chimes in to say actually you missed X. Or you tried to fix something or an incident but have to read through a slack thread to figure out what's been tried? These seem like common work scenarios at most places

Re: Google Doc Templates for Startups

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I might not be the target audience, but this screams corporate junk

I thought the same (“corporate junk”) early in my career... then I had to start getting dozens/hundreds of people to execute in a coordinated fashion against a defensible plan...

Some comments in this thread make me take for granted how junior people are, some of this stuff is table stakes big co stuff and sometimes not even enough, you make these docs that answer everyones questions but maybe 2 out of the 12 people who should know actually read it
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