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Founder DNA

The Leadership Lab • 196 implied HN points • 09 Mar 23
💼 Business Leadership Organizational Behavior Team Dynamics Personal Growth Feedback
  1. Every aspect of your team's culture reflects your strengths, blind spots, and dysfunctional behaviors as a leader.
  2. Founder DNA influences how teams adopt a leader's habits and behavioral patterns, leading to organizational dysfunction.
  3. Team culture stems directly from a leader's psychological and relational patterns, affecting how employees interact and behave within the organization.

Why your Leadership team needs a candid self-assessment

The Leadership Lab • 196 implied HN points • 30 Mar 23
💼 Business Leadership Management Self-assessment Team Dynamics Feedback
  1. Assessing your leadership team is crucial, as it impacts the overall success of the company.
  2. Conduct a candid self-assessment with your leadership team, focusing on good questions and embracing candor.
  3. Regularly assessing and addressing improvement areas within the leadership team can significantly boost a company's performance.

Navigating the Shift from Feature to Product Teams and Building a Product Mindset

An Innovator's Sketchbook • 98 implied HN points • 04 Feb 24
💼 Business Product Management Feedback Team Dynamics Leadership Organizational Culture
  1. Transitioning from feature to product teams involves empowering cross-functional teams focused on outcomes and value.
  2. The localization industry is evolving with AI, leading to job destruction but also creating new business opportunities.
  3. Feedback is important for team growth, and using the 'Situation-Behavior-Impact' framework can lead to effective and powerful feedback.
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Developer Experience: Cracking The Code For Peak Productivity

Wisdom over Waves • 39 implied HN points • 20 Apr 24
🕹 Technology Productivity Software Development Feedback
  1. Achieving a flow state is crucial for peak productivity. Minimizing interruptions like emails, popups and delays helps maintain focus and enhance performance.
  2. Reducing cognitive load is essential. Providing clear domain knowledge and simplifying technical aspects contribute to better understanding and productivity.
  3. Establishing a fast feedback loop is key. Faster identification of issues, learning from failures, and making data-driven decisions lead to better performance and quality.

The Path Ahead For Homeland

The Lunacian • 138 implied HN points • 29 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Gaming Community Development Feedback Innovation
  1. Return to foundational Axie building principles: focus on iterative development, community involvement, social features, and cross-platform accessibility.
  2. Revamp Homeland gameplay by emphasizing social strategy, quicker gameplay, and reducing clicking for better user experience.
  3. Introduce combat elements, avatar axies for social interaction, AXP integration, and restructured Moonfall quests to enhance the player experience in Homeland.

In Quality, the secret sauce is feedback!

Wisdom over Waves • 79 implied HN points • 11 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Development Feedback Software Quality Customer Needs
  1. Quality in software is about fast and fabulous delivery without compromising on quality.
  2. Defining quality can be subjective, meeting customer needs they may not even know they have.
  3. Feedback is the secret sauce to understanding customer needs, with practical tips like frequent releases, attentive listening, and exploring multiple feedback layers.

Photo highlight: Week 1

One bag many places • 39 implied HN points • 05 Apr 24
🏝 Travel Photography Europe Content creation Feedback
  1. The author is experimenting with creating content, aiming to post long-form content weekly and something in-between, like a weekly photo highlight
  2. The photo highlighted is of an orange moped in Zurich, noted for its color contrast with a blue building in the background and green bush, plus the sharpness of details like rain on the moped
  3. Author reflects on possible improvements like a blue sky in the background, less busy background, and seeking feedback on how to enhance future photos

Find someone who is a catalyst for your power: (Working with Your Gift #3)

Meaning-Making • 117 implied HN points • 20 Mar 23
⛪ Faith & Spirituality Gifts Relationships Support Feedback Mentorship
  1. Finding a catalyst can enhance and amplify your gifts, making you more powerful.
  2. Different types of catalysts include mutually strengthening relationships, friendly competition, cheerleader-type support, and honest feedback from a peer group.
  3. Embrace the catalysts in your life to unlock your full potential and amplify your latent power.

Why I’m excited about AI-assisted human feedback

Musings on the Alignment Problem • 459 implied HN points • 29 Mar 22
🕹 Technology AI Feedback Machine Learning Automation Evaluation
  1. The use of reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has been successful in aligning models with human intent like following instructions.
  2. Training AI systems on tasks that are hard for humans to evaluate may not be directly solvable with RLHF due to challenges in generalization and evaluation.
  3. AI-assisted human feedback, like recursive reward modeling (RRM), can help tackle complex tasks by involving human evaluation in aligning AI systems.

The Trough of Feedback

Investing 101 • 106 implied HN points • 17 Feb 24
💼 Business Investing Venture Capital Feedback Startups Relationships
  1. Understanding the dynamics of healthy relationships is crucial in the world of tech and startups, especially regarding venture capitalists.
  2. Venture capitalists often become overly concerned with seeking validation and can struggle with providing valuable feedback due to various insecurities.
  3. The feedback process in venture capital, known as The Trough of Feedback, can be challenging due to the balance between honesty, long-term relationship building, and reputation management.

A Call To Write

Sarah's Newsletter • 259 implied HN points • 17 May 22
📚 Literature Writing Feedback Conversations
  1. The importance of writing to express your voice and thoughts even if you're not an expert.
  2. Encouragement for minority readers to share their perspectives and start writing.
  3. The commitment to continue writing regularly, even if other projects become a priority.

5 Myths About Growth Mindset That Are Sabotaging Your Goals

Weekend Developer • 19 implied HN points • 28 Apr 24
🚌 Education Mindset Learning Development Challenges Feedback
  1. Having a growth mindset involves more than just positive thinking; it's about accepting failures, learning from mistakes, and putting in consistent effort.
  2. You can't have a growth mindset in all areas of life at once; prioritize where you want to grow and focus your efforts there.
  3. Effort alone is not enough for growth; it must be combined with good strategies, feedback, and continuous commitment.

Progress Report for Paid Subscribers #2

Trantor Publishing • 39 implied HN points • 01 Feb 24
📚 Literature Writing Publishing Fiction Short Stories Feedback
  1. Author has been busy in January with multiple chapters published and an exclusive short story for paying subscribers.
  2. Author is planning a raffle for paying subscribers to win signed paperback copies of their book as a thank you gesture.
  3. Author is seeking input from subscribers on potentially re-working the ending of one of their works and is open to suggestions for future content.

Intermission: Coming Up, Laid Down

The Abbey of Misrule • 178 implied HN points • 15 Jun 23
⛪ Faith & Spirituality Events Podcasts Feedback Community Engagement
  1. Paul Kingsnorth has upcoming events in Ireland and the USA focused on ancient Christianity and localism.
  2. He has been active in various podcasts this year, discussing a range of topics from Christianity to transgenderism.
  3. Paul is seeking feedback from his readers on his podcast appearances and is considering starting his own podcast focused on the spiritual crisis of the modern world.

When to Scale or Keep Iterating

The Data Score • 59 implied HN points • 10 May 23
💼 Business Product-Market Fit Scaling Feedback Automation User Behavior
  1. Achieving product/market fit is crucial for the success of a startup or new product as it means the product meets the needs and preferences of the target market, leading to customer satisfaction and retention.
  2. Iterating on a handcrafted approach at the start can help find product/market fit before scaling to avoid unwanted tech debt and ensure the product evolves to meet client outcomes.
  3. To determine product/market fit, look for signs like user retention, surveys showing strong customer preference, and organic growth, then iterate quickly based on critical feedback to ensure the product is indispensable to users.

🎓 How a Senior engineer effectively onboards at a new job.

Become a Senior Engineer • 19 implied HN points • 28 Mar 24
💼 Business Onboarding Relationships Goals Ownership Feedback
  1. Focus on learning about the organization and its dynamics during the initial weeks instead of showcasing your skills right away.
  2. Build strong relationships early on by meeting teammates, getting into details, asking questions, and offering help to increase your influence.
  3. Set clear goals with your manager for the first 90 days to balance networking, learning, and making tangible contributions.

Introducing the Deep Cuts podcast

escape the algorithm • 79 implied HN points • 13 Feb 23
🎙 Podcasts Episodes Subscriptions Feedback Themes
  1. The Deep Cuts podcast is not like a typical podcast, it's more of a mixtape of episodes from unpopular shows, creating a unique listening experience.
  2. The first season of Deep Cuts focuses on the theme of 'firsts', bringing listeners to unexpected creative universes with each episode.
  3. To subscribe to Deep Cuts, you can choose your preferred podcast app or manually enter the feed URL, with Spotify currently not allowing private podcast feed subscriptions.

How to handle critical feedback

PeopleStorming • 39 implied HN points • 16 May 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Feedback Emotions Neurochemistry Coaching Self-awareness
  1. During feedback conversations, focus on being curious and open-minded rather than defensive.
  2. Ask yourself 3 important questions when emotionally triggered during feedback: Check the story you're telling yourself, understand the actual feedback, and identify your feelings.
  3. Criticism triggers cortisol production in our bodies, while praise triggers oxytocin; understanding this can help rationalize reactions to feedback.

10 Ways for Leaders to Build World-Class, Healthy Teams

PeopleStorming • 39 implied HN points • 30 May 23
💼 Business Leadership Team Building Innovation Professional development Feedback
  1. Create a safe space where team members can take risks, share ideas, and acknowledge errors to encourage collaboration and innovation.
  2. Form diverse teams with varied backgrounds and skills to ignite creativity, challenge norms, and create products that appeal to a wider audience.
  3. Support team members' growth by offering learning opportunities, mentorship, and skill-building, resulting in a stronger and more capable team.

Inconclusiveness as narrative strategy

The Leftovers • 59 implied HN points • 27 Sep 22
📚 Literature Feedback Rejection
  1. Inconclusiveness can be used as a narrative strategy in writing, adding intrigue and depth to the story.
  2. It's important not to take all feedback to heart, as sometimes what might be seen as a flaw can actually be a deliberate choice by the author.
  3. Receiving rejection in creative endeavors is common, but it can also mark a turning point in one's artistic journey.

Look at yourself in the mirror

Tech Ramblings • 39 implied HN points • 25 Jun 23
💼 Business Entrepreneurship Startups Leadership Success Metrics Feedback
  1. People often show only their strengths and avoid talking about mistakes. It's important to face your failures honestly.
  2. Many founders mistakenly believe their company is doing well without understanding the real numbers. They need to check their reality against actual progress.
  3. Getting honest feedback is key to knowing if you're on the right path. Without it, it's hard to measure how well you're doing.

The Cost of Poor Performers

Build To Scale • 19 implied HN points • 21 Aug 23
💼 Business Management Performance Feedback Recruitment Culture
  1. Quickly addressing poor performance is crucial for building a strong performance culture in a company.
  2. Identifying and managing poor performers is essential, especially in fast-growing organizations to maintain a high-performance environment.
  3. Giving clear feedback, setting expectations, and making decisions about poor performers promptly can lead to increased productivity and a stronger team.