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The meeting that should have been three emails
We optimized for synchronous discussion long after the discussion stopped being useful. A small audit of the calendar, and what fell out of it.
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I was wrong about senior hires
For two years I optimized our hiring loop for pedigree. The people who moved the company forward were almost never the ones I was looking for.
Operating rhythm is a product you ship to your team
Weekly reviews, monthly planning, quarterly bets — the cadence itself is the artifact. Treat it the way you'd treat a release.