09. NOTASAP
The expectation of immediate response is everywhere. Real-time everything isn’t human-scale, yet that’s how so many work and communicate these days. Not us. We think urgency is overrated, and ASAP is poison. Real-time is the wrong time most of the time.
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- Start here
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- An obligation to independence
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- Work isn’t war
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- Small teams
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- Profit motive
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- Err on the side of do
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- Shape Up every six
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- We don’t sell you
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- 8/8/8
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- NOTASAP
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- The Fortune 5,000,000
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- Don’t emulate the office
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- Hours aren’t equal
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- On repeat
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- Meetings aren’t free
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- Bury the hustle
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- The trap of marginal thinking
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- Politicking
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- Two tokens of customer service
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- Pay people, not addresses
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- Small tech
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- Know no
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- Stayups
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- Thoughting vs. thinking
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- Fixed
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- Disagree and commit
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- Kick in the face, kick in the ass
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- Broadly speaking
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- Shots on goals
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- JOMO not FOMO
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- Miscommunication problems
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- Easy?
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- Ruby on Rails
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- Planning is guessing
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- Sleep on it
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- Companies aren’t families
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- Context > consistency
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- What’s in a name?