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I have a rule for new collaborations with founders or clients: two calls. That’s it. If a decision hasn’t been made by the end of the second call, the idea or lead moves to a low-priority list.

I once had to pick poo out of my robot vacuum. It was because it was the highest leverage thing I could do then. There’s nothing beneath me. The only reason things get done by me, or not, is leverage. And this is how I hire.

The last thing the leaders want is to promote someone in the team who does not have the desired behavior or values of the team or organisation. How do you do that in a team of over 100 people?

Rubrics are useful tools used to assess students according to learning outcomes. However, outside of the education system we still see it being used everywhere, from case study competitions, to hackathons, interviews or scholarship assessments.

In this post, I will share different choices the engineering team has made throughout the early phase of the product development to navigate uncertainty, to the extent of building uncertainty within the product. For those curious about how life is like building a product for the government, you get a rare peek into how one team does it.

In a series of unfortunate events, you and your friends are left stranded in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. Together, you have managed to salvage some items from the wreck. As a group, your task is to agree on the importance of these items. Your decisions will determine if you get to walk away alive. The problem now is how do you decide on the importance? Quadratic voting can help!