Michael Lopp
14 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 25, 2024 by Michael Lopp · across every show →
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Jan 25, 2024 positive
Managers should encourage employees to leave Slack once they outgrow it
“And here's a controversial one. There's times we spent a year. I'm like, you don't need to be here anymore. You have learned everything that you're going to learn here at Slack. It's time to go somewhere else. And I wouldn't say it like that, but there's truly…”
Jan 25, 2024 positive
Notorious visionary tech leaders will quickly concede when proven wrong
“Every leader that you just referred to, every single one, when I'm right, and they're wrong, and I can convince them of that in whatever scenario, they understand that. They go, yeah, well, yeah, shut up. You're right. Stop. I got it. I got it.”
Jan 25, 2024 neutral
Jan 25, 2024 negative
Measuring unstructured engineering time destroys the conditions for creative invention
“There is no accounting. Because it's, the moment we do that, then the project managers show up and they say, cool, have you done your wolf time? Great. Check. Let's do that. Thanks so much. Great. Good job, everyone. Now we're operationally sound. It's the sho…”
Jan 25, 2024
Lopp: Autonomous engineer exploration should be continuous, not limited to hackathons
“My utopia is that engineers have a good chunk of time To do what everyone promises us during week of code or these other like one week of things. Hey, I want to build something and demo the CEO. These are great things, but that's an always thing. That's all a …”
Jan 25, 2024 positive
Lopp: Directive leadership helps people by giving them the initial momentum to start
“I think a lot of people want to be told what to do. Oh, I just threw up in my mouth. And I don't, I bet these people don't even think that, but I think it gets you started. Right? It's not, you're actually not going to do it. I'm gonna say, hey, go do this thi…”
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Jan 25, 2024 positive
Lopp: Visionary CEOs foster debate cultures to challenge their ideas
“That is part of the culture of these companies that you're talking about is that there is that, that debate culture that the CEO, she or he has created because they have a vision. They want to do the thing, but they also want their brightest and their talented…”
Jan 25, 2024
Engineering teams should spend 71% on structured work and 29% exploring
“That's my utopia, is that there is that thing that's 71%, that's a real business and real stuff that's really clear, and we're debating it, and we're making it better, but there's also this free time to be kind of a free electron or a wolf or something like th…”
Jan 25, 2024 negative
Job interviews only reveal a facade compared to real work pressure
“It's not enough time and you don't, you got to see someone with bullets shooting over their heads to see who they truly are. It's fine. Interviews are great. You learn quite a bit, but like I've been trying for this forever. It's kind of like root out and I'm …”
Jan 25, 2024 positive
Unsolicited back-channel references are far more insightful than candidate-provided ones
“I think you can learn from background. Checks, but there are people that are, they're picking the people that they're telling to you. You gotta do like unsolicited ones are actually the ones that are actually interesting because someone who hates them tells yo…”
Jan 25, 2024 negative
Operationalizing unstructured engineering innovation time at Palantir was a huge disaster
“I tried to operationalize this at Palantir and it was a huge disaster for most of the reason I kind of disimplied. I gave it a title. I said, this is how you achieve this and this is how we will measure this. And it suddenly became this gameable thing where ev…”