I find it almost hard to read about other people’s jobs because I feel so incompetent.
Thanks for writing this though. Sounds like hard and interesting work. I particularly liked just hearing what you do. Sounds like those playbooks you create are probably really valuable.
Have you ever had EA non-profits ask about your growth advice?
And on a more technical question, do you feel good about growing. When I’m building products I often feel it’s too soon to push to people. I wonder if that feeling ever stops.
Wow, that means a lot because sometimes I feel quite unthoughtful and uncurious when I read your excellent tweets!
Haven’t had any EA non-profits ask me about that. I still don’t have that much experience (only 1.5 years) in the grand scheme of things but would me more than happy to try to help anyone who thinks they could benefit from talking to me.
Overall I’ve become a lot more brave since working here. Just saying “look I’m 60% sure this will work, but we need to make a decision rather than waiting on this for 2 more weeks so let’s just go.” It doesn’t always work, but oftentimes acting and then learning and iterating if needed is better than waiting for the perfect decision. I’m lucky that my company environment is really good for that sort of approach—our CEO talks a lot about how we need to “be brave” and “be thoughtful but impatient”
I find it almost hard to read about other people’s jobs because I feel so incompetent.
Thanks for writing this though. Sounds like hard and interesting work. I particularly liked just hearing what you do. Sounds like those playbooks you create are probably really valuable.
Have you ever had EA non-profits ask about your growth advice?
And on a more technical question, do you feel good about growing. When I’m building products I often feel it’s too soon to push to people. I wonder if that feeling ever stops.
Wow, that means a lot because sometimes I feel quite unthoughtful and uncurious when I read your excellent tweets!
Haven’t had any EA non-profits ask me about that. I still don’t have that much experience (only 1.5 years) in the grand scheme of things but would me more than happy to try to help anyone who thinks they could benefit from talking to me.
Overall I’ve become a lot more brave since working here. Just saying “look I’m 60% sure this will work, but we need to make a decision rather than waiting on this for 2 more weeks so let’s just go.” It doesn’t always work, but oftentimes acting and then learning and iterating if needed is better than waiting for the perfect decision. I’m lucky that my company environment is really good for that sort of approach—our CEO talks a lot about how we need to “be brave” and “be thoughtful but impatient”