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Hey Dan, you don't know me, but I think this is really, really good. Thank you for putting it together.

Loved these slides and have shared with colleagues. Thanks for writing it all down in such an engaging way.

The endless lessons those haphazard years taught us

never gotten over it tbh

I love these because they’re reminders that the first couple of years of my career crammed a decade into them. Then I went and chose a fresh challenge: labor organizing (with software on the side)

Reminds me of the business adage from somewhere, "You don't get extra points for doing it the hard way"

I miss working with you Dan, this is a serious deep thing, quite timely if I may say so myself. Cheers

I'm curious about the idea of slack in the system. Can you quantify or add more detail about how hard people are pushing in high performance scenarios?

I think you want specific programs: bootcamps and hack weeks like I mentioned, 20% time is another one

"20% time" might have bad branding with other teams, e.g. the original Google thing may have been conflated with the idea of engineers shipping features or whole products on their own. I have occasionally called it "19% time" to drop the hint that this is not that.

Hey Dan, just wanted to say thanks for posting this -- extremely useful and timely. Like Tim, I'm now at an organization which is definitely *not* engineering driven but the takeaways from the talk seem equally (if not more) applicable here. Empathy and compassion is the way.

This is fantastic, as usual.

Thanks yo

How much of the "feel-good programs" do you think is ZIRP? I moved from years of consumer web products to The Enterprise at the end of the ZIRP days, and things like boot camps, hack weeks, skill shares, embeds are less common now. I don't know if it's the company, industry, or just a new era.

Thank you, really liked the talk! And while this is ultimately totally irrelevant to the argument being made, I'm wondering whether there might be typo ("+" instead of "*") in the Kingman's Formula spreadsheet.