• podcasts:: This Week in Startups
  • Metcalfe’s law
    • working with a team, everyone wants to be on same page past 8-10 people the connections become unmanageable
    • conversation gap as a result of these connections
  • vision: technically quite powerful but also adoptable, integrate into what people are doing
    • avoid app/saas burnout
  • feeling empowered and challenged by something inherently negative (biggest issues) is one of the biggest empowering things for an entrepreneur
  • how do you nurture creativity while allowing the org to be super efficient
  • navigator: best practices for processes accessible to everyone, but processes change all the time and best practices will change for specific context
    • best of both worlds: have access to all the best practices with the ability to adjust to your specific case
      • Poor Economics adding local-sensitive context to solutions
      • broad strokes won’t work
  • some things lend well to async and some things lend well more to sync
    • how do you push things towards the proper areas?
    • pre-read can get rid of a lot of stuff
    • sync is useful for nuanced discussions and drilling down
  • deferred judgement