Alex Komoroske
14 statements across 1 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 3, 2024 by Alex Komoroske · said 6 times in 3 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Oct 3, 2024
Oct 3, 2024 positive
Komoroske: I talk to Claude daily and cannot work without it
“I mean, I talked to Claude 20 times a day. You know, I just have long conversations with it. I have tons of projects loaded up with all kinds of contexts on different topics. And I literally could not do the job I do now without having a conversation partner l…”
Oct 3, 2024 negative
Komoroske: The fear of making your manager look dumb drives organizational dysfunction
“The underlying dynamic that must be true in any organization on a fundamental basis is you can't make your boss look dumb. Because if you do, they're the person who decides, oh, this person's not performing or whatever, and that one little asymmetry, that one …”
Oct 3, 2024
Komoroske: Organizational coordination costs scale quadratically with headcount
“The core dynamic that makes organizations hard to navigate as they get larger, even if you assume everybody's actively good at what they do, actively collaborative and actively hardworking is this emergent force of coordination of finding the like subset of pr…”
Oct 3, 2024 negative
Oct 3, 2024
Komoroske: Turn Explanations That Work in 10 Meetings into Asynchronous Docs
“If the same idea worked for 10 different people, and now in the future, there's probably 10 other people that need to hear it, and now I'll write that document in 30 minutes, and now I have it as a memorialized thing that other people can read on their own tim…”
Oct 3, 2024
Komoroske: Mundane tasks expand to consume unprotected deep thinking time
“Deep thinking takes time and space and you gotta create that space. Like, you know, the mundane pointless bullshit will cut, take every square inch you give it. So you gotta make that space to sit back and reflect And luxuriate in these ideas.”
Oct 3, 2024 positive
Komoroske: Taste is most critical skill as AI cheapens content production
“We've seen a vast reduction in the cost of distribution of information. And now we're seeing a reduction in the cost of information production. And most of it is slop. And so in this cacophony, How do you stand out? You stand out by having good taste. I think …”
Oct 3, 2024 positive
Komoroske: Moderate organizational kayfabe is a necessary lubricant for ambition
“Kayfabe in the small is optimism. Enthusiasm. When someone says, we're going to do this thing, you say, yeah, we're going to do that. Even if like, I think this thing is going to work. If you say, I know this thing is going to work, everyone loses hope and it …”
Oct 3, 2024
Oct 3, 2024
Komoroske: Teams should spend 70% of their bandwidth on legible work
“Typically what I would advise for PM's approach at Google was, 70% of my effort and my team's effort should go on things that everybody acknowledges are important and useful and create value. Maybe it's boring linear value, but some kind of value. You're tryin…”
Oct 3, 2024 positive
Komoroske explains the 'Hallmark Card fallacy' of profound life insights
“This, I call kind of the hallmark card fallacy, which is you discover at great effort. Some deep insight that resonates with you and makes you see the world differently, and you want to share it. Insights are naturally viral. You want to share them, and you go…”
Oct 3, 2024 positive
Komoroske: Awe and wonder enable receptivity to disconfirming evidence
“There's so many times that people feel the feeling of awe or wonder or curiosity is treated as a not very serious or childlike thing. And I just don't get that because it is the, that is how you are open to disconfirming evidence. It's how you see beyond the c…”