Deadlines
topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
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Petersen: Get teams working weekends via impossible deadlines, not requests
“The way to get people to work on nights and weekends is not to ask them to work nights and weekends. It's just give them a deadline that can only be met if they work on nights and weekends.”
French-Owen: Asking engineers individually in 1-on-1s prevents timeline anchoring
“Kind of the trick that I've started using is in one-on-ones actually asking each person what they think will happen over the next three or four weeks. And what I find asking one to one is that one people don't anchor against each other's answers. So you get a …”