Generally I feel like that I always could do this ... it just wasn't always requested / time budgeted / folks didn't expect or care.
Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings
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#93"CEO said a thing" journalism, discussed on HN very recently: https://karlbode.com/ceo-said-a-thing-journalism/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577735
Literally Ars Technica reviewing anything
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is funny is the Adobe executive who proved that yearly employee review process is no longer needed over a decade ago but for some reason the trend never caught on across the corporate world. Seems that some trends just don’t catch on for some reason.
Getting rid of sadistic reviews of underlings? And take aways their fun? What's wrong with you?!
I was a manager of engineers and manager of managers. I've never heard the word fun used in conjunction with reviews.
It's a system and process put together by others, with forms and criteria that were flawed. It required real effort to do it even half successfully. It's not clear it ever had much impact on future behavior. and it had to be done on a timeline that interfered with doing the regular job.
If someone had a real performance issue, there were better approaches to the problem.
Yet every company I worked from from tiny startup to large Silicon Valley company insisted on it every year.
Re: Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings
#95> "I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking," Jobs once said, according to a book published last month by David Pogue. "People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint.
"Keynote began as a computer program for Apple CEO Steve Jobs to use in creating the presentations for Macworld Conference and Expo and other Apple keynote events."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynote_(presentation_software...
Re: Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings
#96"CEO said a thing" journalism, discussed on HN very recently: https://karlbode.com/ceo-said-a-thing-journalism/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577735
Literally Ars Technica reviewing anything
OMG yes. The most egregious in movie/tvshow trailer reviews.
Who tf cares about a random quote included in the trailer?
Here's a subtitle for a He-Man movie trailer from the other day: "Skeletor took my family and he destroyed our world."
I mean, anything would have been better than that, and "Another attempt at live action movie based on 80s action figure" or even "in theatres on X.Y." would be Pulitzer material in comparison.
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#97I 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.
We need to match the tool to the uncertainty we're facing. The "just prototype it" thinking addresses "feasibility uncertainty". It surfaces blind spots and helps people tangibly reason about what the product looks like. It's a great exploratory tool for incremental ideas. But it doesn't address the the larger uncertainty that startups are faced with: "market uncertainty" (or pmf). It doesn't answer "should we be bui…
I really agree with a lot of this but also think it may be hitting a bit too hard. It may be most applicable to engineer founders.
My anecdote is that, after a few stings with non-technical founders, a doc etc will not improve the chances to reach PMF and prototypes that they can understand can improve the chance.
Outside of the startup context, I have also seen prototypes (hand written way back when that was a thing) resonate with FAANG directors much more than brainstorming.
I am very much for not just vibe it, and the biggest risk of prototypes is they lend to just directly launching broken systems to production. But I think this is a different topic than reaching PMF.
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#98"CEO said a thing" journalism, discussed on HN very recently: https://karlbode.com/ceo-said-a-thing-journalism/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577735
lol, what a gem (positive) that essay is turning into
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why did they even hire if they had to just fire a person who hadn't even started. It really reflects to the level of incompetence within the company. I am sorry for your friend, I hope that he is doing fine, Is there anything that they can legally do for this to block?
They are doing okay! And there is some legal actions possible, though not worth it in this case.
Good to hear that they are doing okay! The job market is a bit tough out there for many people.
> And there is some legal actions possible, though not worth it in this case.
I'd still suggest talking to a lawyer (or a lawyer friend, for free if possible!), I don't suppose just discussing these things would hurt!
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are doing okay! And there is some legal actions possible, though not worth it in this case.
Good to hear that they are doing okay! The job market is a bit tough out there for many people. > And there is some legal actions possible, though not worth it in this case. I'd still suggest talking to a lawyer (or a lawyer friend, for free if possible!), I don't suppose just discussing these things would hurt!
They actually did! That was the lawyers advice :)