Lura Long

Idea, people & product enabler; eater; traveler; thinker; lifetime Minnesotan, interim New Yorker; health-tech enthusiast @flatironhealth; opinions=mine;🐦 newb

[Rashad Robinson @rashadrobinson]

Elon Musk fired the entire team that identified that the Twitter algorithm amplifies right-wing voices over others.

Not the first time we have seen staff — particularly Black employees — punished for flagging how their company's products enable & amplify racism. #TwitterLayoffs

[Lura Long @byluralong]

@hannahohearth We 3 cant wait!

[Lura Long @byluralong]

Tagging a few colleagues who have taught me some of these lessons directly or indirectly, though there are so many more and some not on Twitter @spbail @jkraut03 @trucklos @DrBlytheAdamson, Daniel Obeng, @KaraKubarych

[Lura Long @byluralong]

I shared my 7 tips for cross-functional collaboration with Medium’s Better Programming based on my experience in healthtech. https://t.co/na7MKr98QE

Today's problems require people from different disciplines to build together but it's not always easy. Let's discuss.

Thread:

[Lura Long @byluralong]

We rarely succeed alone so let’s act like it.
Ultimately, the experiences we build and grow with our colleagues impact our outcomes, just as product experience impacts customer success metrics. What would you add?

[Lura Long @byluralong]

Bonus. Define clear roles and responsibilities using a RACI framework. Decide upfront who the decision maker is. Without one decision maker, decisions often don’t get made or take too long to be made.

This does not make other people’s roles less important.

[Pedro Arantes @arantespp]

"Stop doing work that simply provides a positive return on investment.

Start focusing on work that minimizes opportunity cost."

It took me some time to finally understand this statement.

@shreyas

[Lura Long @byluralong]

Thanks, @hannahohearth. I wish I learned them all sooner tbh.

[Lura Long @byluralong]

@reinpk One person's day has 8-10 hours, a company's day has thousands. Delegation is necessary to multiply impact but it's so hard. Hard to do and then hard to do while resisting the urge to micro-manage solution definition.

[Peter Reinhardt @reinpk]

In the early days of Segment, right after we crossed $10m ARR our growth decelerated 8x from 300% yoy to 40% yoy in 6 months. What the hell happened? How did we reaccelerate back to 100% yoy? A thread 1/18

[Jamil Smith جميل كريم @JamilSmith]

“We cannot out-organize voter suppression,” @DerrickNAACP told @theEricLutz, referencing the Biden @WhiteHouse’s reported insistence that discriminatory ballot restrictions can be overwhelmed by heavier turnout. That is nonsense, a sign of lazy governance. https://t.co/En24niUa6o

[Maggie Crowley @maggiecrowley]

The funny part about every PM wanting to do strategy is that writing a strategy isn't the growth signal they think.

It's executing on that strategy across multiple quarters & teams that's hard & the thing that signals growth. Way less glamorous, way harder, way more valuable.

[Lura Long @byluralong]

@blaqueerflow Unacceptable, I’m so sorry. Can I help? I can make some calls to the center/ can try to help with a legal solution too. This screams malpractice to me as a non lawyer. & I know Black pain is too often on display but HC workers should be forced to learn this case