Joerg Rheinboldt, serial Investor, vc and starter, GP @heartfelt_vc, @betterplace_org, Board of Trustees: Berliner Stadtmission @EvUnterneh, tech enthusiast😀🚀
Week 7 of Patterns x Principles — Reading the World You're Building. On envisioning reality, planning horizons, productive vs destructive distortion, and a thinking model from Chris Argyris that keeps coming back.
https://t.co/eASZ8hNGbe
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A company I co-founded once died of a single colour.
The spreadsheet ran mostly black with a steady drift of green. Then one dimension we had treated as ultra-predictable turned red. They cannot behave like this was said out loud more than once.
The reality you can't read in yourself is the reality you can't read in the company.
If you can't see what's in front of you, the question to ask first isn't what's wrong with the data. It's what would change about my picture of myself if I let the data in.
Week 6 of Patterns x Principles — what a team becomes. On how teams form, what shows up in the first conversation, why complementarity beats peak ability, and the sister-traps of freezing and execution theater.
https://t.co/KryA1oWHp8
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In teams, the slowest standard wins by default.
Shipping at 80% isn't "lower the bar." It's lowering the stakes per try so the team can keep trying and continue to build momentum.
This week's Patterns x Principles — on momentum as a disposition, the catalogue of where it shows up before traction, when it becomes flow, and when there is no momentum and the move is to stop.
https://t.co/awf2ZmxUB8
There is a real version of staying still that is not freezing.
Moving closes options. Holding things open is sometimes the right move. The skill is calibration — and most of the people who build remarkable things are good at telling the difference.
Week 4 of Patterns x Principles: hybrid organizations, qualified intuition, Centaur Chess, and a prompt to build your first perspective. https://t.co/H7FDwfTbze
I realized I had been doing the same thing in my own work for months without ever thinking to put the agents on the org chart.
Lume, Darklume, Maya, Aiden, Amara, Elias, Sophia, Parallax. A Circle I had built without having the language for it.