Las

🧙‍♂️ product engineer @linear - prev @reflagcom, timekit, offerta, konscript & more

[Las @laander1901]

@nzmrldev @linear @thsottiaux Thanks for the video walkthrough, very helpful! This is unfortunately out of our hands, but we'll share the details with the Codex team and hope it'll be resolved soon

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

The fallacy of this is that more creates more. More hours, more hiring, more something.

And it is true in a sense. If you put in more work, more work will happen. But I think for most startups, the leverage is really in how differently you approach the problem, how well you cultivate your team, and the strategy.

Any large company can outspend you on hours. They have thousands or tens of thousands more people, spending more hours. If hours worked were the metric, every large company and government organization would always win and do the best work. More hours, better output.

This thinking is often representative of younger founders, where the startup becomes their identity and life. They have a hard time doing anything else, and cannot understand that your work is not the person that is you. But activities outside of work can grow you as a person too and make you do better work.

I’ve never worked this way. As a designer, I always saw the need to take a step back, to take a break. At times, I might work 12 hours or 16 hours, or whatever amount was needed, but it wasn’t the norm. You just can't grind design, you need inspiration. But taking that step away from the work, would give me more perspective, inspiration and I could approach the problem differently or I could just see the solution.

Grinding is never good for any creative problem, and startups or creating new products are often mostly about creative problem solving. Grinding works ok for email jobs, or where you just executing on very clear playbook.

With Linear, we’ve never worked this way. We work reasonable hours, 5 days a week. All of us founders have families. Many of our employees have families. I personally stop every evening, spend time with the family, cook dinner for the family, eat dinner together, and focus on things outside of work. Sometimes I work in the late evenings or weekends, but to me the pride is that I don’t need to. Company should be succesful without it.

My goal is to build a company that is sustainable in the long term, and doesn’t require heroics or personal sacrifices every single day.

There are times when our team is heroic. Launches, incidents, some other work that just needs to be done. They will work late into the night because they know it is the right thing. But we don’t require that every day or every week, and the more this happens, the more I think it is a failure of our company and leadership. The team and the leaders should always keep a reserve to use when something is needed.

Our thinking was also that quality, which we value, doesn’t emerge from working more or stressing people more. It emerges when you create the conditions for it to emerge. Often it is the appreciation, space, time, and how the person feels. A person who is rested will do better work.

I wouldn’t attribute much of our success to working a lot. The success came from having clear thinking, ideas, and focus to do the right things.

I sometimes wish we could move the culture more toward a Zen master.

Real mastery is not exerting the most effort. It is achieving the outcome with the least necessary effort.

[Las @laander1901]

@peduarte @mikedemarais I bought a thumb drive just to downgrade a fresh new macbook M4 that came bundled with Tahoe - noped out from the first minute I tried it. really wish Apple would just listen instead of doubling down for once.

so ist das leben

[Las @laander1901]

@peduarte @mikedemarais interesting, thanks, didn't realize there were so many different runtimes in play.

you're likely right about the aesthetics given that Raycast is closer to the OS than something like Linear - just unfortunate that you're forced to choose (I'm not leaving sequoia anytime soon)

[Las @laander1901]

@peduarte @mikedemarais if raycast v2 is an electron app, why does it require Tahoe?

[Las @laander1901]

@dxvfabian Bold to be selling custom webshop themes and not care about consistency in UI

[Las @laander1901]

@edgarasben @linear Yeah, just use labels and/or sub-issues for that. Teams are better suited for org units, like Product, Marketing, Talent etc.

[Las @laander1901]

@usrnk1 what's the terminal button in the top of the sidebar? 👀

[Las @laander1901]

@kylegalbraith we just deployed some small tweaks to Pulse. i can't repro the bug you're describing, are you still seeing the same? if so, please DM me 🙏

[Las @laander1901]

@usrnk1 @opencode huge! 🙌 grats to them

[Las @laander1901]

@MaximeHeckel really cool! is it by any chance inspired by Sebastian Lague's series on procedural planets? https://t.co/f1FZk3RmFE (all his coding adventure videos are spectacular)

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

Client preview building from my code changes in @linear

[Las @laander1901]

@linear @KirkMarple you can also change it to show the unread count (as opposed to just the dot) if you prefer

[Las @laander1901]

@heyimgustavo @linear this has been fixed now so they are perfectly aligned down to the (sub)pixel. it was a bit tricky because both priority and status icons can be over the line and they're slightly different sizes. thanks for reporting it!

[Las @laander1901]

@RoyDigerhund @HonzaTmn @base_ui @linear from https://t.co/osj0LsutpU

[Las @laander1901]

@rrkhanna @linear does the DevTools console (⌘⌥I) show any error message? would be great if you could fire us a message at [email protected] 🙏

[Las @laander1901]

@kiwicopple @supabase i've been staring at the comparison for a minute and only change I see is that you added settings? which shortcuts did you remove?

[Las @laander1901]

@callinstevens @linear this has been fixed now, give it a spin :)
hold Opt to scroll faster and Cmd to jump to start/end.

[Linear @linear]

Announcing Linear Reviews.
A modern code review experience for humans and agents.

Join the waitlist for early access:
https://t.co/zATvXl04w9