Adam Blanchard

I tweet about people-first engineering leadership.

[Adam Blanchard @blanchodam]

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[Delta Force Game @DeltaForce_Game]

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To say thanks, we’re giving away 5 DF hats, 5 DF bags, and
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[Adam Blanchard @blanchodam]

@veidtt Same :( hope they can fix something @duolingo

[Adam Blanchard @blanchodam]

@veidtt Same happened to me! Any fix? :(

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

@erikgoinsHQ Notion, GitHub, Slack. More here: https://t.co/JbNOE0Cmpa

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

Progress is measured by a vector. There is both speed and direction. If the direction is wrong, the speed is effectively negative.

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

How to scale yourself: go from answering questions to writing documentation.

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

The speed with which you can respond to change is inversely proportional to the amount of control.

[Dan Price @DanPriceSeattle]

As a CEO I believe in radical transparency.

Every few weeks we have a companywide meeting where we go over our financial situation in detail. Anyone can ask questions.

When everyone knows how much money the company has it's easier to explain things like pay and staffing levels.

[Yesenia Perez-Cruz @yeseniaa]

My therapist told me that if I had to perform "at my best" all the time, then it wouldn't be my best, it'd be my norm.

I need a moment to recover. 😂

[Adam Blanchard @blanchodam]

@helloanselm @colloq_io Sorry to hear that @helloanselm. Good luck with whatever comes next!

[Shahed Khan @shahedkhan]

3. Strive for 90% focused work / 10% meeting & sync time

- No meetings on Tues & Thurs
- Encourage turning off Slack & distracting notifications
- Track your time to better understand your distractions
- Buy your team a copy of Deep Work & Getting Things Done

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

If a team doesn't understand what a customer needs in a story, call them up and ask. Don't ever delegate that task to a PO/PM.

Allowing anybody to be the sole conduit to the customer is a huge anti-pattern.

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

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Let's explore why 👇

1. Overview
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3. Creators
4. Fans
5. What's next

[Jack Rivlin @jackrivlin]

Last year I finally sold The Tab, the media business I co-founded, raised $10 million investment for, and sadly failed to turn into a huge success.

Here's what I learned during the two years I spent selling the company:

https://t.co/vLLtg2sXSt

[Joe Cohen @Cohen_Goes_HAM]

@shaneparrish I’m never as good or as bad as anyone (me) thinks I am. As a result I don’t hold on to generalised opinions. Specific feedback is good, judgements less so.

[Wolfie Christl @WolfieChristl]

Esoteric metrics based on analyzing extensive data about employee activities has been mostly the domain of fringe software vendors. Now it's built into MS 365.

A new feature to calculate 'productivity scores' turns Microsoft 365 into an full-fledged workplace surveillance tool:

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

Instead of estimating stories, learn how to make them smaller.

You get the same "have a discussion" benefits that people claim is the "real" reason to estimate (we can discuss that), and you also end up with things you can implement and deploy very quickly.

[Allen Holub. https://linkedIn.com/in/allenholub @allenholub]

You don't write stories. You have conversations with your users in order to discover (or capture) them. You're a note taker, not an author.