Being on a new team can be scary.
I run Product teams at Google.
Here is the advice I give new people on my team:
Your #1 goal is to build trust. You do that by focusing on 3 things...
You can often trace back a co's massive competitive advantage to a key decision in its history. For amazon, it was this 2002 memo. The API economy was still 10yrs out, so this took real courage. The only joke here was the last line. Bezos didn't really care if you had a nice day.
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Get a cup of coffee.
In this thread, I'll walk you through Recurrence Equations.
This is a beautiful area of math, with many finance/investing applications.
Plus, it can teach us a lot about problem solving in general -- how to simplify problems and solve them efficiently.
The neat thing about being His “main” (well, one of the neat things) is that because I’m secure in my place, I’m only actually ‘competing’ with myself.
As in, how can I continue to improve myself to make His life better/easier/more fun?
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