Async Teams Should State Intended Actions and Proceed Absent Objections
Gabriel Weinberg · Gabriel Weinberg: Practical Steps to Safeguard Your Data and Identity Online · May 14, 2019 · at 1:23:56
Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo, details DuckDuckGo's internal core value of 'validating direction' without creating operational bottlenecks.
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“So what we try to say is there are a lot of other smart people in the company who may be able to do things faster, better, know the right answer. And so generally you should be coming back and validating your direction. And so the easiest way to do that is to just write what you're doing. And say, not stop yourself. Just say, look, I'm going to go do this. Does anyone have ideas or object to what I'm going to do? No one objects. I'm just going to, I'm going to keep moving forward.”
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