Jing: how to take care of people
- Figure out what their hopes and goals are; then help them achieve those
- Within Google framework: getting promo fast
- Then: Trying out full-stack dev because I wanted to, from day 1
- Loyalty
- Chewed out frontend team after specs changed. She turned to me and said “What. The. F***” when she heard about it. Very mama bear.
- Morale
- Threw a surprise birthday party for Angie with the whole team
- Coworker: “You always have a smile for me”
- Responsibility
- When Hangouts Chat frontend was melting down, if it happens on stage. “If they don’t fire me, I have to resign”. Very frank.
Thiago
- Pay attention to the details
- Wrote up an extensive nitpick through how the design of Streamlit layouts should work. Then when Notion ate it… wrote it up again
- Good process
- Take notes on Notion!
- 1:1 meeting docs
- DM people with feedback
- Happened to me live during demos after a hackathon. It’s extremely rewarding to know that people are paying attention to what you’re doing
James
- Believe in yourself
- Launching Manifold love, pulling the team together, bullheadedness with play money. Contrarianism, libertarianism
- Work hard
Stephen
- Don’t do dumb things
- Not doing cashouts when I wanted to was probably good, if it looked blatantly illegal
- Paranoia during FTX crisis was very good (got Manifold’s money out of there)
Ian
- You can just do things! Ship fast.
- Care about your users.
Rachel
- Aesthetics matter
- OpenBook, The Curve/Manifest, Scheduling App
- Following rules is consideration to others
- There’s more to life than the internet
TODO:
- Adrian, Amanda
- Ian
- David
- Matt
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