[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":79},["ShallowReactive",2],{"issue-485":3},{"favorite":4,"culture":16,"peopleware":47,"inspirational":68},[5],{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":9,"label":10,"title":11,"url":12,"domain":13,"summary":14,"timeToRead":15},"Issue 485 - 11th March 2022",485,"11th March 2022",1646983926,"favorite","The Elephant in the Room: The Myth of Exponential Hypergrowth","https:\u002F\u002Flongform.asmartbear.com\u002Fdocs\u002Fexponential-growth\u002F","longform.asmartbear.com","I highly recommend sharing this post with Jason Cohen with your teammates. The Elephant Curve explains why companies need to add more products to increase their growth as they mature. It covers marketing expenses and how to judge the phase of the campaign or the company (is it time to launch a new product or to a new market?). A powerful framing (Elephant) worth remembering.",17,[17,25,33,40],{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":18,"label":19,"title":20,"url":21,"domain":22,"summary":23,"timeToRead":24},1646984033,"funny!","LGTM 👍","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fkorndaniel1\u002Fstatus\u002F1501822753304891396","twitter.com","My humble effort to help you start the weekend with a smile on your face, even in this difficult time.",1,{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":26,"label":27,"title":28,"url":29,"domain":30,"summary":31,"timeToRead":32},1646983878,"culture","Your Startup’s Management Training Probably Sucks — Here’s How to Make It Better","https:\u002F\u002Freview.firstround.com\u002Fyour-startups-management-training-probably-sucks-heres-how-to-make-it-better","review.firstround.com","You can use this article to assess the type of potential mistakes the organization is (usually by inertia) making when training managers. Every leader in your organization, whether technical or managers, should get proper training. There are very few investments you can make that will create a massive outcome for the company.",12,{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":34,"label":27,"title":35,"url":36,"domain":37,"summary":38,"timeToRead":39},1646983903,"To Start a Community, Create a Surround System","https:\u002F\u002Frosie.land\u002Fposts\u002Fstart-by-surrounding-yourself-with-the-people\u002F","rosie.land","Rosie Sherry's post is important as we build communities everywhere we go. It might be a forum in your company for leaders (say Principal Engineers Forum) that you want to set up, or a group of founders who meet every month to share dilemmas. This one is spot on: \"Learning to spot and identify what matters and what brings community impact is key. It's not just about what your potential people say or do, it's also about combining that with the direction you believe your community needs to take, and the the knowledge you have acquired from your research.\"",6,{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":41,"label":27,"title":42,"url":43,"domain":44,"summary":45,"timeToRead":46},1646983995,"How to Scale a Unicorn-Building Engineering Team (And Stay Sane)","https:\u002F\u002Fmedium.com\u002Fmeliopayments\u002Fhow-to-scale-a-unicorn-building-engineering-team-and-stay-sane-40af8ac7e3db","medium.com","Gad Salner shares how he and his team grew from a team of 1 to a group of 25 engineers in less than 18 months. If you're facing a similar type of growth, pick up practices you think will be helpful in your setup.",7,[48,56,62],{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":49,"label":50,"title":51,"url":52,"domain":53,"summary":54,"timeToRead":55},1646983510,"peopleware","Work Estimates Must Account for Friction","https:\u002F\u002Fstackoverflow.blog\u002F2022\u002F02\u002F14\u002Fwork-estimates-must-account-for-friction\u002F","stackoverflow.blog","Listen to Karl Wiegers and follow his advice: \"Project friction has a profound impact on estimation, so both individuals and teams must keep it in mind. I estimate how long individual tasks will take as though I will have no distractions or interruptions, just focused and productive time. Next, I convert that ideal effort estimate into calendar time based on my effective work-hour percentage. I also consider whether any of the other aforementioned sources of friction could affect my estimates. Then I try to arrange my work so that I can focus on a single task at a time until it’s complete or I hit a blocking point.\"",5,{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":57,"label":50,"title":58,"url":59,"domain":22,"summary":60,"timeToRead":61},1646377218,"Tools for Making Difficult Decisions (Thread)","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Famasad\u002Fstatus\u002F1497327727124238336","I like Amjad Masad's tools to consider when making difficult decisions. My favorites are \"Infinite resources\" and \"First day thinking.\" What are you taking from it? Which ones you'll use and remember?",3,{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":63,"label":50,"title":64,"url":65,"domain":44,"summary":66,"timeToRead":67},1646983980,"The Superpowers of Hybrid Profiles","https:\u002F\u002Fmedium.com\u002Fshipup-blog\u002Fthe-superpowers-of-hybrid-profiles-7f1c71932913","\"So hopefully, I’ve illustrated what I consider the superpowers of HP. As an individual contributor with a skillset built around a single job, I think it’s interesting to evaluate at some point in your career how you want to widen your skills and knowledge.\" -- Florian Fesseler made me pause and think about  \"Hybrid Profiles\" (HP) and how we can train people and leverage dual roles they can play to help the company scale.",4,[69,75],{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":70,"label":71,"title":72,"url":73,"domain":22,"summary":74,"timeToRead":24},1646984100,"inspirational","If they're dead, read them. If they're alive, meet them.","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fshl\u002Fstatus\u002F1501010405233070080","",{"listName":6,"listNumber":7,"listDate":8,"cardDate":76,"label":71,"title":77,"url":78,"domain":22,"summary":74,"timeToRead":24},1646984138,"Gatekeeping is not only done by evil people. Gatekeeping can simply be the result of under sharing. When seniors  don’t open up their knowledge, they make it hard for others to take part and grow. We all gatekeep at some level, because sharing at scale is hard.","https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Foren_held\u002Fstatus\u002F1500542485248065548",1786781349485]